Niagara E-book
Author: Mark Twain
Genre: Government / Economics
Twain, Mark (pen name of Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) American humorist
whose pseudonym was adopted from his days as a Mississippi steamboat pilot,
"mark twain" meaning "two fathoms deep." He introduced colloquial speech
into American writing and was the most popular writer of his time.
Niagara (1903)
A comic piece that expresses Twain's negative views about Niagara
Falls. Complaining about, among other things, the poor fishing
there, he states, "There is no use in your walking five miles to
fish, when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful nearer
home.
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