Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MARK TWAIN
his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
His name twain means "TWO".
The reason most of his books are controversial is to give the book more potential and a little bit of disagreement in his stories.
Interesting Facts about Mark Twain is that in 1847 Worked as a printer's apprentice in Hannibal, Missouri, and thereafter began working at his brother Orion's newspaper. Then in 1853 Traveled to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia, working as a journeyman printer.
The word Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning an example is when a speaker says one thing but means another, sort of like sarcasm.
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre.
one of his most known book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
His relation with Mark Twain is that in 1868 HOT AIR Adventure writer Jules Verne published the story "Five Weeks in a Balloon" without knowing that Mark Twain had been working on his own.

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