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.

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 ".

Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years before the War.

" The Private History of a Campaign that Failed " is one of Mark Twain's sketches ( 1885 ), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard.

He was a prolific writer of essays, reviews and scholarly introductions, including those for the anonymous Victorian erotic memoir My Secret Life ( 1966 ), Aleksandr Afanasyev's Russian Secret Tales ( 1966 ), and Mark Twain's The Mammoth Cod ( 1976 ).

In 1990 he published a memoir called “ Truth and Consequences: The Education of Mark Rudd ” which detailed his life with SDS, the Columbia University riots, and his time as a fugitive.

( 1999 ) The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature.

* Fiensy, David A., " Population, Architecture, and Economy in Lower Galilean Villages and Towns in the First Century AD: A Brief Survey ," in John D. Wineland, Mark Ziese, James Riley Estep Jr. ( eds ), My Father's World: Celebrating the Life of Reuben G. Bullard ( Eugene ( OR ), Wipf & Stock, 2011 ), 101-119.

Kirlian Photographer Mark D. Roberts, who has worked with Kirlian imagery for over 40 years, published a portfolio of plant images entitled " Vita occulta plantarum " or " The Secret Life of Plants ", first exhibited in 2012 at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis.

Eichenwald, two prosecutors, an FBI agent, and Mark Whitacre ( during his incarceration ) were featured on a September 15, 2000, episode of the radio program This American Life about the ADM case.

In Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), Mark Twain, on the other hand, satirized the impact of Scott's writings, declaring ( with humorous hyperbole ) that Scott " had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the

The S. Mark Taper Foundation Life Science Botanic Garden, completed in 2007, is a “ living classroom ” in the middle of campus.

For instance, Mark Finn, author of Blood and Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard, contends that de Camp deliberately framed his questions in regard to Howard to elicit answers matching his Freudian theories about him.

* Gunther Sturm Mark Von Santill ; Life & Crime of the Beast Gozon ed.

* Girouard, Mark ( 1979 ): Life in the English Country House.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

Mark Stevens is based in the UK where he is the Creative Director of the Pentecostal Church's Abundant Life Centre in Bradford.

The principal source for the story is Plutarch's " Life of Mark Antony " from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

* David H. Miller and Mark J. Stegmaier, James F. Milligan: His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853 – 1854 ; His Adventurous Life on Land and Sea, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988.

* Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, 1961, McGraw-Hill, ISBN B000NWQ8QK

In the 1870s and 1880s, the Mississippi River inspired two classic books – Life on the Mississippi and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – written by native Missourian Samuel Clemens, who used the pseudonym Mark Twain.

* Laynesmith, Mark D. ( 2000 ) “ Stephen of Ripon and the Bible: allegorical and typological interpretations of the Life of St Wilfrid ”, in: Early Medieval Europe 9. 2 ( 2000 ), pp. 163 – 82.

Denny Laine quit in late 1966, and a final ' Mark One ' Moodies single, Pinder-Laine's " Life's Not Life ", was scheduled for release in January 1967 ( Decca F 12543 ) c / w " He Can Win ".

John Lombardo, who was in a band called The Mills ( along with brother guitarist / vocalists Mark Liuzzo and Paul Liuzzo and drummer Mike Young ) and used to play occasionally with Still Life, was invited to join permanently on guitar and vocals.

In the version quoted by Mark Twain in " Life on the Mississippi " 1883, p 399, "… the warrior, with one plunge of the blade of his knife, opened the crimson sluices of death, and the dying bear relaxed his hold.

By 1874, Mark Twain had included White Bear Lake as the resort in his " Life on the Mississippi.

Also in late 2006, Townshend granted an interview with author Mark Wilkerson, which led to Wilkerson's 2008 biography Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend.

Mark Twain: A Literary Life.

Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Mark Twain: A Life.