Selected Short Stories of Mark Twain (Full Translation with Illustrations)

Author: Mark Twain (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Mark Twain is the founder of 19th-century American critical realism literature and a world-renowned master of short stories. He is the first writer in American literary history to use pure American colloquial language in his writing. He was called "the Father of American Literature" by Faulkner and hailed as "the Lincoln of American Literature" by Howells. The outstanding characteristics of Mark Twain's works are humor and satire. With his fresh and humorous writing style and unadorned, simple language, he pioneered the colloquialization of American novels, made outstanding contributions to the development of American literary language in the style of realism, and had a profound influence on later writers. Selected as one of the "Reading List of Chinese and Foreign Literature" recommended by 14 professors, including Qixianlin, Yang Zhouhan, and Li Funing, in the "Catalogue of Chinese and Foreign Literature" in 1986. One of the books that has had the most influence on 113 professors from various disciplines at the world-renowned Harvard University.