Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (PDF)
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The genesis of this story is well documented. In December 1866, Twain sailed partway from San Francisco to New York aboard the steamship America, captained by the boisterous Edgar "Ned" Wakeman. Captain Wakeman clearly intrigued Twain, who mentioned him in...
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The genesis of this story is well documented. In December 1866, Twain sailed partway from San Francisco to New York aboard the steamship America, captained by the boisterous Edgar "Ned" Wakeman. Captain Wakeman clearly intrigued Twain, who mentioned him in letters back to the San Francisco newspaper Alta California. In 1868, Twain again encountered Captain Wakeman in port in Panama. In a letter to the Chicago Republican (August 17, 1868), he describes paying the Captain a visit aboard his steamer, where "the old gentleman told his remarkable dream." The dream is not described in the letter or elsewhere, but is most certainly the foundation for Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Although a fragment the Extract has been called "one of his very best pieces" by Twain critic Everett Emerson. It reflects Twain's thinking on enduring issues, such as "What constitutes goodness?" In his San Francisco days, Twain described himself as a Moral Phenomenon. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven gives us a glimpse of what that phenomenon meant to him.
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, as he was better known was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. His father ran a dry goods and grocery store, practiced law and involved himself in local politics after the family's move to Hannibal, Missouri, when Sam was four years old.Hannibal seems to have been a good place for a boy to grow up. Sam was entranced by the Mississippi River and enjoyed both the barges and the people who traveled on them. When Sam was just eleven his father died and Sam went to work for his brother at the Hannibal Journal first as a printer's apprentice and later a compositor. While still in his teens Sam went on the road as an itinerant printer. In 1857 he conceived a plan to seek his fortune in South America but on the way he met a steamboat captain, Horace Bixby who took him on as a cub riverboat pilot and taught him until he acquired his own license.
This enjoyable style of life, which Twain always spoke of later with special warmth was ended by the Civil War. Twain went west with his brother Orion to prospect in Nevada but in 1862 joined the staff of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, a paper to which he had already begun submitting his work. Later Twain went to California and submitted The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County to the New York Saturday Press.
By 1871, Twain had published Innocents Abroad and had married Olivia Langdon, the sister of a friend from socially prominent New York City family. He and his wife moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where they made their family home for the next 20 years.
Books that he wrote in Hartford confirmed his popular reputation but despite their success Twain found himself in financial difficulty primarily because of his investments in the Paige typesetting business as well as his own publishing company. Eventually Twain was forced to declare bankruptcy.
Twain's last
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major books were successful commercially but they also reflect his increasing pessimism. His satire becomes at times more biting and mean-spirited than it is humorous. Despite the downturn in Twain's outlook in later life and despite the unevenness of much of his work, he remains one of the major writers of the American nineteenth century, and one who has been enormously influential on subsequent writers.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mark Twain
- 2002, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0594086337
- ISBN-13: 9780594086338
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.02.2002
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