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.

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

Twain's friends encourage him to go find a man called Jim Blaine when Blaine is properly drunk, and get Blaine to tell " the stirring story about his grandfather's old ram " ( Chapter 53 ).

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

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.

Each year, the county hosts a fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, featuring a frog-jumping contest, to celebrate the association with Twain's story.

Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci, from Locana, Italy, were immortalized in Mark Twain's short story " Those Extraordinary Twins " as fictitious twins Angelo and Luigi.

The library gained national recognition in 1906 after it banned Mark Twain's short story " Eve's Diary " for its illustrations of Eve in " summer costume.

Little Bessie, a story ridiculing Christianity, was first published in the 1972 collection Mark Twain's Fables of Man.

* November 18-Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in a New York weekly, The Saturday Press.

Peace is mentioned by name in the Sherlock Holmes short story, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client and in Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

Mark Twain's 1876 story " A Literary Nightmare " ( also known as " Punch, Brothers, Punch ") is about a jingle which one can get rid of only by transferring it to another person.

Twain's colorful story was immensely popular, and was soon printed in many different magazines and newspapers.

Lukas Foss composed The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, an opera in two scenes with libretto by Jean Karsavina, based on Twain's story.

* Mark Twain's book, The Innocents Abroad, tells a satirical version of the story of Abélard and Héloïse.

Hill was probably the basis for the character Butterworth Stavely in Mark Twain's short story " The Great Revolution in Pitcairn.

An urban retelling of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, the screenplay is by Cynthia Friedlob and John Semper from a story by Michael Swerdlick, Richard Brenne and Wayne Allan Rice.

The plot is taken from Twain's real first major story, " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ".

In the autumn of 1984, Twain's talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: " Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range.

However, Twain's biographer, Robin Eggar, writes: " There is a continuing confusion about what ' Shania ' means and if indeed it is an Ojibwe word or phrase at all.

Such forms of sportive equipment during the final phase of the joust in 16th-century Germany gave rise to modern misconceptions about the heaviness or clumsiness of " medieval armour ", as notably popularized by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Such forms of sportive equipment during the final phase of the joust in 16th-century Germany gave rise to modern misconceptions about the heaviness or clumsiness of " medieval armour ", as notably popularized by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Author K. Martin Gardner expounds on this literary history, and Twain's friendship with renowned scientist of the time, Nikola Tesla, in his novel of the town's name. Copperopolis

In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television, with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens ( Mark Twain's real name ).

The name comes from the following quotation in Mark Twain's Pudd ' nhead Wilson: " October.

Admitting that his recollections may stretch the truth a bit (" When I was younger, I could remember it, whether it happened or not "), Twain spins a tale of two brothers, Sam and Orion Clemens (" Sam Clemens " was of course, Twain's given name ).

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.

The island in front of Commerce was known as Cat Island at least as early as Mark Twain's time ; however, it has been absorbed by Powers Island to the south.

The concept has also been attributed to Mark Twain, though there is no documentation of this origin in Twain's published writings.

* Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper ( see " Literature ," above ) has been the basis for many film and stage adaptations, the earliest film version being in 1920.

The Tudor period has also been shown in other films, including the 1966 film of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, the 1990s adaptation of Orlando and various versions of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.

Blicher's work had been translated into German, but not into English, and Twain's secretary wrote Mr. Thoresen a letter, stating, " Mr. Clemens is not familiar with Danish and does not read German fluently, and has not read the book you mention, nor any translation or adaptation of it that he is aware of.

Although not one of Twain's better-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication.

Suttree has been compared to James Joyce's Ulysses, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and called " a doomed version " of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The work has a very different feel and flow from Twain's other works.

" has become one of Twain's most successful singles in Europe to date.

" has become one of Twain's biggest singles in Europe.

He has also charted as a duet partner on Shania Twain's single " Party For Two " and his own non-album single " Tangled Up ", for a total of eleven Top 40 hits.

Huang has said that in his early years he had limited access to literature in Chinese and that significant influences were Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and " The Killers "; Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County "; William Faulkner's " A Rose for Emily ," " The Bear ," The Wild Palms, and other American literature.

Kingdom of the Sun was to have been a tale of a greedy, selfish emperor ( voiced by Spade ) who finds a peasant ( voiced by Owen Wilson ) who looks just like him ; the emperor swaps places with the peasant for fun, much as in author Mark Twain's archetypal novel The Prince and the Pauper.

Many texts have been translated and included in the wiki, including Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, Charles Dickens ' Christmas Carol, Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth.

The town was the subject of a chapter in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, in which $ 10, 000 dollars had been hidden behind a brick in a building.

Longer versions of the manuscript have subsequently been published, including one edited by Dixon Wector which appeared as part of Report from Paradise ( 1952 ), and in part 1 of Mark Twain's Quarrel with Heaven: " Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven " And Other Sketches " ( Ray B. Browne, ed., 1970 ).

Recent scholarship of the trial transcripts, however, suggests that Twain's belief may have been closer to the truth than Shaw was willing to accept.

Nevertheless, responses to The Autobiography have generally been more positive than Twain's or Lawrence's, with most readers recognizing it as a classic of literature and relating to the narrative voice of the author.

Jerome would have been aware of Mark Twain's humorous travelogue, A Tramp Abroad ( 1880 ), based on a walking tour through similar parts of Germany, with extensive comments on the language and culture.