A Million Dollars: A Selection of Novellas by Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain / Fang Ping / Lu Jin
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American writer whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark Twain" was his pen name, originally a term used by Mississippi River boatmen to indicate the depth of water in a channel. Throughout his life, Twain wrote a vast amount of work across various genres, including novels, plays, essays, and poetry. In terms of content, his works criticized unreasonable phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, reflecting the strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of this writer who had worked as a typesetter and a river pilot. In terms of style, both experts and general readers agree that humor and satire are his distinctive writing traits. This collection of short and medium-length stories includes thirteen of the author's novels, arranged in the chronological order of their original publication dates. These stories are either widely known (such as "The Million Pound Bank Note" and "Running for Governor") or less familiar to the public (such as "The Friend of Gulliver Again Aboard" and "The Cannibal on the Train"), but all are vividly interesting and thought-provoking.