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The American Claimant

Mark Twain

Book Overview: 

The American Claimant is a novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, "all men are created equal" America. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature. Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to turn to from time to time.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Colonel shouted with an anguished accent—

"Do please cover them up—don't let the damp get at them. The delicate tints in the Angelico—"

But the man was gone.

Washington re-appeared and said he had looked everywhere, and so had Mrs. Sellers and the servants, but in vain; and went on to say he wished he could get his eye on a certain man about this time—no need to hunt up that pocket-book then. The Colonel's interest was awake at once.

"What man?"

"One-armed Pete they call him out there—out in the Cherokee country I mean. Robbed the bank in Tahlequah."

"Do they have banks in Tahlequah?"

"Yes—a bank, anyway. He was suspected of robbing it. Whoever did it got away with more than twenty thousand dollars. They offered a reward of. . . Read More

Community Reviews

My favourite Mark Twain book. All of the weather is included in the appendix at the end, and there’s an entire chapter about actresses involved in hotel fires.

Divertidísimo, me he reído a carcajadas.

"Irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty." Mark Twain's novel, The American Claimant contains gems of political wisdom, wrapped a little less slyly than in Huck Finn, but powerful and still, sadly, relevant in 2021.

The story is as wiggly as a seven year-old's loose front tooth but

Hilarious

There's a couple notes at the beginning, one an explanatory saying that the Colonel Mulberry Sellers was the Eschol Sellers in the 1st edition of The Gilded Age, and as Beriah Sellers in subsequent editions, the change the result of someone named Eschol who showed up threatening a lawsuit...

Then the

3,5. Καλός είναι, έχει πλάκα, αντιλαμβάνεται κανείς γιατί θεωρείται από τους κορυφαίους αμερικανούς συγγραφείς αλλά δεν είναι Χένρυ Τζέιμς. Θα το πρότεινα σε κάποιον που θέλει να γελάσει, να μην πέσει σε κατάθλιψη.

Το "Ο Αμερικανός κόμης" είναι ένα βιβλίο το οποίο κυκλοφόρησε για πρώτη φορά στα ελληνικά, πριν λίγες μέρες, από τις εκδόσεις Πατάκη. Είναι το πέμπτο βιβλίο του συγγραφέα που διαβάζω και διαφέρει σε πολύ μεγάλο βαθμό, σε σχέση με τα προηγούμενα τέσσερα. Πρόκειται για ένα σαφέστατα κωμικό και έντονα

Es una comedia de enredos entretenida. Tiene momentos muy entretenidos.

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