Mark Twain

Dos ni os nacen el mismo d a en la misma casa en una peque a poblaci n del viejo Sur: Chambers, hijo de la esclava Roxy, y Tom, hijo del amo Driscoll. Los dos son en apariencia blancos y casi id nticos. Aterrada ante la perspectiva de ver a Chambers "vendido r o abajo", Roxy intercambia a los ni os, convirtiendo al esclavo en amo y al amo en esclavo. A partir de este equ voco de identidades, Mark Twain pinta en El Bobo Wilson (1894) un c mico retrato de la comunidad fluvial de su infancia, delatando con afilada iron a los tropiezos y miserias de sus pintorescos personajes: el juez Driscoll, los gemelos italianos Luigi y Angelo Capello, el investigador Blake y, por supuesto, el Bobo Wilson. Para sorpresa de propios y extra os, ser la perspicacia de Wilson, su afici n a coleccionar huellas digitales y su l gica deductiva las que descubrir n por fin el secreto de Roxy. L cido y agudo testimonio de lo m s cruel e inh spito de la condici n humana: la esclavitud.

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Congressman. But I'm repeating myself"Mark Twain, a Biography = = = = ="A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise."--What Stumped the Blue Jay = = = = ="Shall we ever have a Congress, a majority of whose members are hopelessly insane? Probably not. But it is possible--unquestionably such a thing is possible."--Letter to sister 1869 = = = = =Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was a funny man. He was also a thoughtful man and very often a frustrated one, especially as he aged. Twain's humor, insight and frustration found regular expression in politics and its players. It would not be an exaggeration to suggest America's finest humorist despised the Machiavellian tendencies and lack of integrity which politicians of all parties displayed. Twain didn't reserve his commentary just for his fellow citizens. Even by today's standards, he was an extraordinarily well-traveled man who visited more than thirty countries in his seventy-five years. His natural curiosity took him from a youthful level of infatuation with monarchy and royalty to a strong antipathy to what is "surely the grotesquest (sic) of all the swindles ever invented by man - monarchy." His acerbic wit was especially reserved for Czar Alexander of Russia, and King Leopold of Belgium who presided over the deaths of an estimated ten million citizens of the Congo during a brutal colonial reign. It would be interesting to get the great man's perception of today's political environment. Sadly, he probably would not be surprised and his comment about "man" could quite likely simply reference today's politics and politicians - "Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."

Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) es una obra literaria del escritor estadounidense Mark Twain que enmarca ideas religioso-pol ticas y conocimientos tecnol gicos de la poca del autor en una ficci n caballeresca sat rica. En 1995 se realiz una adaptaci n cinematogr fica a trav s de la productora Disney, titulada Aventuras en la corte del Rey Arturo.

A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo FitzClarence And Rosannah EtheltonOn The Decay Of The Art Of LyingAbout Magnanimous-Incident LiteratureThe Grateful PoodleThe Benevolent AuthorThe Grateful HusbandPunch, Brothers, PunchThe Great Revolution In PitcairnThe Canvasser's TaleAn Encounter With An InterviewerParis NotesLegend Of Sagenfeld, In GermanySpeech On The BabiesSpeech On The WeatherConcerning The American LanguageRoger

Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. He wrote it during 1870-71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first book The Innocents Abroad (1869). This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad.

This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528.