马克·吐温(Mark Twain,1835年11月30日—1910年4月21日),原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门(Samuel Langhorne Clemens),美国作家、演说家,“马克·吐温”是他的笔名,原是密西西比河水手使用的表示在航道上所测水的深度的术语。
马克·吐温是美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人,马克·吐温一生写了大量作品,体裁涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说,他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处,表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心;从风格上说,专家们和一般读者都认为,幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。他经历了美国从初期资本主义到帝国主义的发展过程,其思想和创作也表现为从轻快调笑到辛辣讽刺再到悲观厌世的发展阶段,前期以辛辣的讽刺见长,到了后期语言更为暴露激烈。
About Barbers
About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
About Play-Acting
About Smells
A Burlesque Biography
A Cure for the Blues
A Curious Experience
A Curious Pleasure Excursion
A Defence of General Funston
A Dog's Tale
Advice To Little Girls
A Entertaining Article
A Fable
A Fashion Item
A Fine Old Man
After-Dinner Speech
"After" Jenkins
A Ghost Story
A Helpless Situation
A Humane Word from Satan
A Letter from Santa Claus
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
A Medieval Romance
A Memory
Amended Obituaries
Among the Fenians
Among the Spirits
A Monument to Adam
A Mysterious Visit
An Encounter With An Interviewer
A New Crime
Answers to Correspondents
A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements
A Royal Compliment
A Telephonic Conversation
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It
At The Appetite-Cure
Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
Cannibalism In The Cars
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Christian Science and the book of Mrs. Eddy
Colonel Mulberry Sellers
Concerning Chambermaids
Concerning The American Language
Concerning The Jews
Concerning Tobacco
Curing A Cold
Curious Relic For Sale
Dan Murphy
Dick Baker's Cat
Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
Disgraceful Persecution Of A Boy
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord??
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
English as She is Taught
Eve's Diary
Experience Of The McWilliamses With Membranous Croup
Extracts from Adam's Diary
First Interview With Artemus Ward
From the 'London Times' of 1904
General Washington's Negro Body-Servant
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
History Repeats Itself
Honored As A Curiosity
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
How The Author Was Sold In Newark
How to Tell a Story
Hunting The Deceitful Turkey
Information Wanted
In Memoriam - Olivia Susan Clemens
Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
Is He Living or Is He Dead?
Italian with Grammar
Italian Without a Master
Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn
John Chinaman In New York
Johnny Greer
Journalism In Tennessee
Legend Of Sagenfeld, In Germany
Lionizing Murderers
Lost in the Snow
Luck
Mark Twain: A Child's Biography
Mr. Bloke's Item
My Bloody Massacre
My Boyhood Dreams
My Debut as a Literary Person
My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It
My First Literary Venture
My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
My Military Campaign
My Watch
Paris Notes
"Party Cries" In Ireland
Petition Concerning Copyright
Political Economy
Portrait of King William III
Post-mortem Poetry
Punch, Brothers, Punch!
Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
Rogers
Running For Governor
Some Learned Fables, For Good Old Boys And Girls
Speech At The Scottish Banquet In London
Speech On Accident Insurance
Speech On The Babies
Speech On The Weather
Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
The 1,000,000 Bank Note
The $30,000 Bequest
The Approaching Epidemic
The Californian's Tale
The Canvasser's Tale
The Capitoline Venus
The Captain's Story
The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Case Of George Fisher
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Curious Dream
The Curious Republic of Gondour
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter
The Danger of Lying in Bed
The Death Of Jean
The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Facts Concerning The Recent Resignation
The Facts In The Case Of The Great Beef Contract
The First Writing Machines
The Five Boons of Life
The Great Revolution In Pitcairn
The Invalid's Story
The Judge's "Spirited Woman"
The Jumping Frog
The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
The Late Benjamin Franklin
The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm
The Office Bore
The Petrified Man
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
The Recent Great French Duel
The Science vs Luck
The Scriptural Panoramist
The Siamese Twins
The Stolen White Elephant
The Story Of The Bad Little Boy
The Story Of The Good Little Boy
The True Story
The Undertaker's Chat
The War Prayer
The Widow's Protest
The Wild Man Interviewed
To Raise Poultry
To the Above Old People
Travelling with a Reformer
Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
Wit Inspirations Of The "Two-Year-Olds"