Twain Mark 
The 30000 bequest and other stories 

Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, aphorist and author of fictional masterpieces of nineteenth-century American literature such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which entered the collective and which have had numerous television and film transpositions. He is considered one of the greatest celebrities of his time: William Faulkner wrote that he was the ‘first true American writer’