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I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years. There are several kinds of stories, but onl

A friend has sent me a new book, from England—The Shakespeare Problem Restated—well restated and closely reasoned; and my fifty years’ interest in that matter—asleep for the last three years—is excited once more. It is an interest which was born of D

인간이란 무엇인가?(What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain)(1906)는 마크 트웨인이 (사망을 4년 앞둔 고령의 나이인) 70세에 익명으로 발표한 에세이입니다. 젊은 청년과 노인이 등장해 인간의 본성에 관한 치열한 토론을 나누는 방식으로 이루어져 있으며, 마크 트웨인의 인간에 대한 복잡다단한 견해 – 심리적 이기주의(psychological egoism), 결정론(determinism), 자유의지(fre

페니모어 쿠퍼의 문학 비평(Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain)(1895)은 마크 트웨인의 에세이로, 17~19세기 미국을 배경으로 아메리칸 원주민과 식민지 개척자의 역사적 로맨스를 창조한 미국작가 제임스 페니모어 쿠퍼(James Fenimore Cooper)(1789~1851)에 대한 문학 비평(Literary Offences)입니다. 풍자와 유머로 유명한 마크 트웨인의 작품답게(?!) 그

EDITOR’S NOTE. The projector of this Series has had in mind the evident desire of our people, largely occupied with material affairs, for reading in a shape adapted to the amount of time at their disposal. Until recently this desire has been satisfie

As soon as I had learned to speak the language a little, I became greatly interested in the people and the system of government. I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and simple, but had thrown that form aside because the

Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn’t any of them going my

My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a sma

Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody

The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl—a case of love at first sight and a precipitate marriage; a marriage bitterly opposed by the

No weather will be found in this book. This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth the while of some dare-devil person to try