For questions about the US author Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens; 1835 – 1910) or about any of his works, which include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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Is this the longest sentence by Twain?
I noticed this sentence in chapter 4 of The Gilded Age with numerous commas, semi-colons, colons, and dashes prolonging a sentence of prodigious length:
Sometimes the boat fought the mid-stream current, with a verdant world on either hand, and…
B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven
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Did Twain mean the coin should be enlarged or not?
In Twain's quote about government's ostensibly trusting in God and asserting that on their currency, I have seen it reproduced both this way:
But I think it would better read, "Within certain judicious
limitations we trust in God," and if there…
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Why do we say “write any quote and sign by Mark Twain’s name and no one would object”?
Once I was writing a “Preface” for my friend’s college assignment book, I wanted to make it attractive so I thought of some quote related to prefaces of books. I consulted on an online forum and someone there said
Write anything you like, mark it…
Knight wants Loong back
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