100 citat från Mark Twain: Samling 100 Citat

Written by Mark Twain

Narrated by Johannes Johnström

Mark Twain är en av de roligaste och mest produktiva författare genom tiderna. Han är mest känd för Tom Sawyers äventyr och dess uppföljare, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, som ofta kallas Great American Novel. Han hyllades som "den största komiker detta land har producerat" och William Faulkner kallade honom "fader amerikansk litteratur". Twain började sin karriär att skriva lätt, humoristisk vers, men han var en krönikör i fåfänglighet, hyckleri och mord handlingar mänskligheten. Hans humor och satir på prosa och i tal, tjänade beröm från kritiker och kollegor, och han var en vän till presidenter, konstnärer, industrimän och europeiska kungligheter. Denna 100 citat är noggrant utvalda från hans stora kropp arbete för att introducera dig till hans karaktär och ge dig några av sina bästa idéer och formuleringar.

• Language: Svenska
• Publisher: Astorg Sweeden
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9782821157927

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.