Celebrating Mark Twain

In 2010, Mark Twain was especially highlighted as this year marked the 100th day of death and the 175th day of birth of the author.

The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Mission Germany came up with a variety of information resources about this highly acclaimed author including:

• Publication Mark Twain. The First Truly American Writer (PDF - 8.83 mb)
• the Poster Mark Twain. The First Truly American Writer comes in two versions: for download and print (PDF - 2.83 mb) or interactive to view on on your computer with embedded audioclips (PDF - 614 kb)
• Photo Gallery Mark Twain's Fictional World

The Awful German Language

Cover of Twain booklet

130 years ago Mark Twain's book A The  Tramp Abroad was published including the famous essay The Awful German Language in the appendix.
The full text of this piece along with more resources has been published by the U.S. Mission to Germany in a special booklet.