马克·吐温(Mark Twain)短篇小说合集

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"