Twain
Famous pen name
Twain as a proper noun refers most often to Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Clemens, the American author of *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* and *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*.
The pseudonym itself came from a riverboat term meaning two fathoms deep.
Twain also appears as a surname. (Lowercase twain is an archaic word for two.)
humorist
One who creates comedy
- satiristOne who mocks through wit
- HannibalCarthaginian military commander
- steamboatEngine-powered watercraft
novelist · antebellum · lecturer · aphorist · whitewashing · riverboat · Clemens · Samuel · author · Mississippi
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Poe
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- American ClassicsMoby-Dick, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- 19th century American and English literatureDickens, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson
american literary style
TwainHenry James
"The Ambassadors" author
Nathaniel Hawthorne · T.S. Eliot · Edith Wharton · Herman Melville · Washington Irving
literary persona and temperament
TwainDostoevsky
19th-century Russian author
Tolstoy · Victor Hugo · Dickens · Tennyson
- Mark Twain
- Shania Twain
- never the twain shall meetPermanent, fundamental incompatibility