Mark Twain
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Roll On
This book has my favorite example of irony in American Literature. This random out-of-context selection is not it, however. Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain They swarmed up towards Sherburn’s house, a-whooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to Continue reading
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Promises Something for Everyone
We made it through the first month! The Innocents AbroadMark Twain The commandant of the Piraeus came in his boat, and said we must either depart or else get outside the harbor and remain imprisoned in our ship, under rigid quarantine, for eleven days! So we took up the anchor and moved outside, to lie Continue reading
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Mind is Not for Rent
Happy Monday to all who celebrate The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain He did not venture again until he had found it, and by that time the other boys were tired and ready to rest. They gradually wandered apart, dropped into the “dumps,” and fell to gazing longingly across the wide river to where the Continue reading
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