5/30/2023 0 Comments Mark twain letter to the earth![]() ![]() His 1860s sojourn in California may have been fruitful – his first fame dates from these years, as well as the Tall Tales and spoofs assembled in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (coll 1867) – but his heart lay in the region of his birth, though he never returned to his home territory to stay.Ĭlemens took his pseudonym from the work-phrase "by the mark twain", a pilot's shouted signal to the captain that the river is two fathoms or twelve feet deep, a navigable depth his freshest nonfiction work, Life on the Mississippi ( 1883), depicted that life. ![]() Pseudonym of US author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), whose early life and work revolved around the Mississippi River, initially as a steamboat pilot 1857-1861, a job he loved and whose loss because of the outbreak of the Civil War was deeply wounding to him, though he had in fact begun publishing very early, his first piece being "A Gallant Fireman" (16 January 1851 Western Union). ![]()
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