Dec 22, 2009

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Twain, Mark

Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910),
American writer and humorist. He incorporated a variety of motifs from folklore and fairy tales in his works from the very outset of his career. In such stories as ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’ (1865) he developed the traditional tall tale into a unique art form. Such stories as ‘L'Arbre Fée de Bourlemont’ (1895), ‘Two Little Tales’ (1901), and ‘The Five Boons of Life’ (1902) were based on narratives from the European fairy‐tale tradition. Many of his stories and novels reflect his strong interest in the Grimms' fairy tales, and the posthumous ‘1002nd Arabian Night’ (1967) was part of a larger project of rewriting The Arabian Nights that he never completed.

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West, Victor Royce, Folklore in the Works of Mark Twain (1930).

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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Twain, Mark

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