Mark Twain, n.Definitions

Mark Twain is that writer whose work, Huckleberry Finn, is the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Mark Twain is A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

Mark Twain is a writer who future historians of America will find as indispensable as a French historian finds the political tracts of Voltaire.

Mark Twain is a writer who spoke of humor, and thought it must be one of the chief attributes of God.