Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Wikipedia

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Tom canty e edward tudor têm a mesma idade. são exatamente iguais. há apenas uma pequena diferença - edward é o príncipe herdeiro do trono da inglaterra, e tom é um mendigo, uma criança dos úmidos cortiços da londres do século xvi. um dia o destino intervém e ambos têm de viver, durante algum tempo, a vida do outro. trocam de roupas e papéis. tom é levado para o meio da pompa e do luxo da corte enquanto edward conhece, horrorizado, os marginais, a sordidez e as profundezas da desigualdade social. a partir do clássico tema da troca de identidades, mark twain (1835-1910) - talvez o maior contador de histórias americano do século xix - reflete de forma magistral sobre o hábito humano de julgar as pessoas pela aparência. e realiza, a um só tempo, uma fábula sobre a hipocrisia e a injustiça bem como uma divertida comédia que vem provocando lágrimas e risos em sucessivas gerações de leitores desde sua publicação, em 1882.

Mark Twain (pen-name of Samuel Clemens) (born 30 November, 1835; died 21 April, 1910), pictured above on the occasion of his receipt of an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Oxford University...

Twain wrote Pudd'nhead Wilson in a blaze of creativity, spurred by his imminent bankruptcy. The finances of Twain's publishing firm, Webster and Company, were failing, and his continued investment in the Paige typesetting machine was becoming overwhelming. He needed to write a commercially successful novel quickly and completed 60,000 words between November 12 and December 14 1892. Making light of his haste, Twain used seven symbols to denote weather conditions and instructed the printer to insert them at the head of each chapter. They do not appear in the printed edition.

A contemporary's account in the Post describes the author as we know him as well as his less pleasant side.

I attended the High School of Music and Art in Harlem, graduating in 1970. As one might expect, it was a place rich with talent. The program was split in two (as the name implies), and as I walked the halls, music would pour out from every corner. What I found interesting then was that many of the talents spilled over from one side to the other. I can’t speak to the visual art of the music students, as it was not so evident, but many of the art students were among the best si

Author Mark Twain was thought to have based his adventurous Southern child character on his real-life acquaintance named Tom Sawyer.

Whenever I look at an old black and white photo, I can't help but wonder what it was like to live in that era. I would also try to imagine what the photo

Nikola Tesla bio je naučnik i inovator svjetskog glasa. Radio je u području elektrotehnike i radiotehnike, te je izumio okretno magnetsko polje i višefazni sustav izmjeničnih struja.

Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and more.

Commune with Clemens in his historic home