Introduction: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910 “All modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain Called Huckkberry Finn” (Hemingway) “I believe that our heavenly father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.” (Darwin Theory, Twain) Literary Masterpiece: The Celebrated Jumping Frog (1867) The Innocent Abroad (US/UK Prejudices) “I have no race …
THE King’s son was going to be married, so there were general rejoicings. He had waited a whole year for his bride, and at last she had arrived. She was a Russian Princess, and had driven all the way from Finland in a sledge drawn by six reindeer. The sledge was shaped like a great …
ONE morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, and their mother, who was pure …
EVERY afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of …
SHE said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. “No red rose in all my garden!” …