Mark Twain

Querkopf Wilson (Originaltitel: Pudd'nhead Wilson. Those Extraordinary Twins.) ist ein Roman von Mark Twain. Er wurde 1894 veröffentlicht und erschien auf Deutsch auch unter den Titeln Knallkopf Wilson und Wilson, der Spinner. Schauplatz der Geschichte ist die heimelige, etwas verschlafene Kleinstadt Dawson's Landing am Mississippi, die wie Deer Lick (in Eine Bluttat, ein Betrug und ein Bund fürs Leben) und auch wie St. Petersburg (in Tom Sawyer)...

Hin und wieder, wenn wir eine Rast einlegten, beobachteten wir die emsige Ameise bei ihrer Arbeit. Ich konnte nichts Neues an ihr entdecken, und gewiss nichts, was meine Meinung von ihr geändert hätte. Mir scheint, dass die Ameise in Sachen Intelligenz ein merkwürdig überschätzter Vogel ist. Ich habe sie nun während vieler Sommer beobachtet, während ich eigentlich Besseres zu tun gehabt hätte, und mir ist noch keine lebende Ameise untergekommen,...

Mark Twain is one of the wittiest and most prolific writers of all time. He is mostly known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is often called the Great American Novel. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced" and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but he became a chronicler of the vanities,...

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Have you been caught in a long and meaningless conversation of which you want to sneak out but somehow find it difficult to do so? Simon Wheeler was sitting quietly in a tavern in a small mining town when an unknown man approached him. The man was actually sent there with a mission: he had to ask Wheeler if he knew another man called Leonidas Smiley. And there the big misunderstanding occurred, because the stranger began rambling about another Smiley...

Sagan segir af hinum unga Henry Adams sem lendir í afdrifaríkum óförum í bátsferð að kvöldlagi. Blessunarlega er honum bjargað af ensku briggskipi og tekur þá við löng og ströng sigling. Þegar skipið kemur loks að landi í Lundúnarborg er Henry bæði auralaus og ráðþrota. Gerist þá hið óvænta og daginn eftir er hann kallaður á fund auðugra bræðra sem vilja lána honum peningaseðil að virði milljón dollara. Með...

300 Quotes from American Writers' is a carefully crafted collection of quotes from three of America's greatest-ever writers, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Between them, they are responsible for some of the world's most famous literary works, ranging from Emerson's essay 'The Poet' and Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' to Henry Thoreau's 'Walden'. This carefully crafted collection is guaranteed to inspire,...