![]() ![]() Mark Twain's weapons of satire: anti-imperialist writings on the Philippine-American War. His sentiments about the war and the war in the Phillippines were published nationwide. During the Spanish-American War, Twain became a fervent anti-imperialist, even joining the Anti-Imperialist League. Twain was an influential writer of his time and remains so today. ![]() He wrote about a myriad of topics, ranging from life along the Mississippi River, detailed in famous works such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1872) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), to a collection of essays written while abroad, to political essays. ![]() Twain is famous as an author, satirist, essayist, newspaper contributor, and lecturer. 1898 HOME > Literature of the Spanish-American War > Mark Twain Mark Twain 1835-1910 BiographyĪlthough born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the author adopted what is one of the most famous pen names in literature, Mark Twain, from a Mississippi river slang phrase. ![]()
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