In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

* Christian Science Mark Twain's famous, vitriolic 1907 polemic mocking Mary Baker Eddy, her writings, and the church's financial arrangements.

* 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

The common title of the cycle echoes Mark Twain's description of Sullivan as a " miracle worker.

Millet is the main protagonist of Mark Twain's play Is He Dead?

The revived Arthurian romance also proved influential in the United States, with such books as Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur ( 1880 ) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

* 1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Mark Twain's " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "

A typical shaggy dog story occurs in Mark Twain's book about his travels west, Roughing It.

" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was the title story of Mark Twain's first book one year later.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

* 1889 – Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1885 illustration from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captioned " Misto ' Bradish's nigger "

Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been the subject of controversy for its racial content, including its use of the word " nigger " as applied to the escaped slave character Jim.

One of Mark Twain's novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut.

Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

It owes much to Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

* In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer's Aunt's resolve becomes " adamantine in its firmness ".

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ) was consciously written as a picaresque novel

First-person narratives can appear in several forms: interior monologue, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground ; dramatic monologue, as in Albert Camus ' The Fall ; or explicitly, as in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Another influence might be Mark Twain's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually a blundering fool, but whose mistakes in the Crimean War always ended in success.

Mark Twain's memoir Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), notable mainly for its account of the author's time on the river, also recounts parts of his later life, and includes tall tales and stories allegedly told to him.

An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as " eschew surplusage ".

* The Gilded Age ( 1876 ) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

In 1876, the plan was almost exchanged for a racetrack favored by “ the Big Four ” millionaires, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Charles Crocker.

The concept of legend tripping is at least as old as Mark Twain's 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which contains several accounts of adolescents visiting allegedly haunted houses and caves said to be the lairs of criminals.

From January 1, 1876 onwards, the Mark became the only legal tender.

Christopher Newman Hall ; a Walter B. Woodbury | Woodburytype photograph published in Men of Mark, 1876

Architect Victor Earl Mark ( 1876 – 1948 ) designed Lee High School with William B. Ittner of St. Louis in 1926-27.

" Tom and Huck " features Bart as Tom Sawyer and Nelson as Huckleberry Finn, both of whom are characters in Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

* History of the Big Bonanza with an introduction by Mark Twain ( Hartford, American Publishing Company, 1876 )

* Mark Malinovsky ( 1851 – 1876 or 1877 ), a Russian revolutionary

In 1876, Orchardleigh was subdivided for housing and when Mark Lodge followed suit in 1885, the area completed its transformation from farmland to suburbia.

Niece Mabel, widow of the mysteriously dead Geoffrey Denham, stars in the 1927 short story " The Thumb Mark of Saint Peter ".

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) is also known to have spread the story while lecturing, personalizing it by adding " I have a higher and greater standard of principle.

* The story of Anyone Can Whistle by Mark Eden Horowitz in The Sondheim Review

In 1986, there was a fire at the Rovers Return, which attracted an audience of just under 27 million, and between 1986 and 1989, the story of Rita Fairclough's psychological abuse at the hands of Alan Bradley ( Mark Eden ), and his subsequent death under the wheels of a Blackpool tram, was played out.

Studios launched in May a monthly Garfield comic book, with the first issue featuring a story written by Mark Evanier ( who has supervised Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show ) and illustrated by Davis's long-time assistant Gary Barker.

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

The two most commonly cited examples are the last verses of the Gospel of Mark and the story of the adulterous woman in the Gospel of John.

* 1968 – Mark Walton, American story artist, actor

Mark Anderson says it is the same story, and that Oxford having passed through the area that Gonzaga ruled was in some way responsible for Hamlet's play-within-the-play.

Rodat's script was submitted to producer Mark Gordon, who liked the story but only accepted the text after 11 redrafts.

This second season featured additional plots such as a love story between Teresa ( Trelaina ) and Yamato crew member Daisuke Shima ( Mark Venture ), and an onboard antagonism between Kodai and Saito ( Knox ), leader of a group of space marines.

* Solo ( 2006, DC Comics ), the eleventh issue of this DC Comics artist anthology series features various stories written and illustrated by Aragonés, some biographical, and a Batman story written by Mark Evanier.

That year, she agreed to sit down for an extensive interview with music journalist Mark Kemp for a cover story in the alternative music magazine Option.

* October 24 – Mark Walton ( story artist ) American story artist, actor

Straczynski is credited as " story writer " along with Mark Protosevich for the 2011 film, Thor.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

His contributions to the city are mentioned by Mark Twain in his travelogue Innocents Abroad: " I mention this statue and this stairway because they have their story.

*" The Mark of the Berserker ", a two-part story in The Sarah Jane Adventures

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.