I may be the last book nut on earth to finally see Thomas Edison's short film clip featuring Mark Twain and his daughters but...if not, here it is for the other straggler or two.
Mark Twain - 1909- at Stormfield (Redding, Connecticut)
Stormfield burned down in 1923. It had remained empty for several years after Twain's death but at the time of the fire it served as the summer home of the
Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Twain is considered the greatest humorist of 19th Century American literature. His novels and stories about the Mississippi River: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894) are still popular with modern readers.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Never tell the truth to those unworthy
CONTENTS.CHAPTER I.Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits.CHAPTER II.The Boys Escape Jim.—Torn Sawyer's Gang.—Deep-laid Plans. CHAPTER III.A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—"One of Tom Sawyers's Lies". CHAPTER IV.Huck and the Judge.—Superstition. CHAPTER V.Huck's Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform. CHAPTER VI.He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decided to Leave.—PoliticalEconomy.—Thrashing Around.CHAPTER VII.Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting.CHAPTER VIII.Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—FindingJim.—Jim's Escape.—Signs.—Balum.CHAPTER IX.The Cave.—The Floating House.CHAPTER X.The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise.CHAPTER XI.Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Go
The real "American Mark Twain"
The AP has an interesting article comparing the kick in sales that a famous author gets upon his death. This is something that always happens when a famous singer dies, and I can clearly remember all the record shops completely selling out of Elvis Presley recordings within a day or two of his sudden death. I figured that it would also happen, probably to a
One Saturday morning in May, Eduardo Arias did something that would reverberate across six continents. He read the label on a 59-cent tube of toothpaste. Scott Dalton for The New York Times Eduardo Arias waiting for a bus recently outside his apartment building in Panama City. The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste By WALT BOGDANICH PANAMA — Eduardo Arias hardly fits the profile of someone capable of humbling one of the world's most formidable economic powers. A 51-year-old Kuna Indian, Mr. Arias grew up on a reservation paddling dugout canoes near his home on one of the San Blas islands off Panama's Caribbean coast. He now lives in a small apartment above a food stand in Panama, the nation's capital, also known as Panama City. But one Saturday morning in May, Eduardo Arias did something that would
Mark Twain: A LifeBiography, by Ron PowersRetail: $35.00Published: 2005Some years ago while doing post graduate work in Madison, Connecticut, I drove up to Hartford to visit Mark Twain's famous house. It is a huge three-story edifice unique for its time. I saw where he did his writing, and I went in and out of the many rooms where his children played and grew up.I used to have a picture of Twain that I bought in the gift shop at the Hartford House and Museum. It showed him sitting in a wooden rocker on the porch of his home. Dressed in his typical white suit, he sat there reflectively, smoking a cigar. I loved that picture but somehow in moving from one place to another I lost it.Although this biography came out a few years ago it remains a breathtaking portrait of one of history's unforgettable characters and one of the nation's most famous citizens.Twain has been called "our culture's founding father," and no other writer has been more quoted, taught, or reprinted except for Shak
“Truth is stranger than fiction – to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
– Mark Twain (1888)
You would think Americans would quote this prolific writer more, but you would be wrong, because 25% of Americans Did Not Read a Book Last Year, oh yeah 25%. Is it a coincidence that this is just about the same approval rating [...]
“There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect;...
“In the matter of diet – I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things that didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
TITLE: Twain, Mark, CALL NUMBER: No call number recorded on caption card [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.SUMMARY: Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c1907.Digital ID: cph 3a08820 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,865 kilobytes)NOTES: This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USADIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a08820 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3a08820, CARD #: 2004672770Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-5513]MARC Record Line 540 - No known restrictions on publication.Mark Twain From Wikipedia, the
TITLE: Twain, Mark, CALL NUMBER: No call number recorded on caption card [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.SUMMARY: Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c1907.Digital ID: cph 3a08820 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,865 kilobytes)NOTES: This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USADIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a08820 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3a08820, CARD #: 2004672770Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-5513]MARC Record Line 540 - No known restrictions on publication.Mark Twain From Wikipedia, the
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
“I've been studying the game of golf pretty considerably. I guess I understand now how it's played. It's this way. You take a small ball into a big field and you try to hit it – the ball not the field. At the first attempt you hit the field and not the ball. After that you probably hit the air...
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
In a 2006 talk to the Internet Advertising Bureau in London, Bill Gates said that we would be paperless within 10 years. Now - according to two reports of the Microsoft annual Strategic Account Summit (from Print is Dead blog and IWR's feed) - he has reduced this to five years. Gates had rather strong feelings on the subject. "Reading is going to go completely online," Gates is quoted as saying. "Why is reading online better? It's up to date, you can navigate, you can follow links"... simply stating the case that the utility, in terms of digital reading, is far higher than it is for print reading. As the Print is Dead writer suggests, you have to pay some attention to the predictions of a man who could not have made "that much money without being right about a few things."But it isn't as simple as that... which is why I shall continue to disagree with the prediction (we shall see in 2012!).Yes - there is an enormous and increasing amount of material online, but it is being
“Behold, the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention'; but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET.'”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
From some of the oldest points of interest in the United States to some of the most modern marvels America has to offer; from the quiet and solitude of Mark Twain’s small-town life to the excitement and nightlife of America’s largest casinos; from the foothills of the Appalachias to the very shores on which our ancestors first set foot on the solid ground of the new world - you’ll find it all here in Connecticut!
Original post by Rossella Lorenzi
