Mark Twain (Samuel Lenghorn Klemens) - the outstanding American writer, the journalist and the public figure. Its creativity covers set of genres - realism, romanticism, humour, satire, a philosophical fantasy, publicism, etc., and it invariably takes of a position of the humanist and the democrat in all these genres.

On peak of career it was, possibly, most popular figure in America. William Folkner wrote that it was "the first rather American writer, and all of us since then - its successors", and Ernest Heminguej wrote that "all modern American literature left Mark Twain"s one book which is called "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". From Russian writers about Mark Twain especially warmly responded Maxim Gorky and Alexander Kuprin. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Best Works of Mark Twain (комплект из 4 книг) (Mark Twain)