Факт и вымысел в журналистике Марка Твена

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«We learn from gentlemen who were present at the trial to-day, that there were about thirty witnesses on the stand, and one of them a woman». Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (January 11–21, 1863). The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 401.

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«…The art of writing half-truthful articles to entertain his audience of miners and roughnecks». Underwood D. Journalism and the Novel. Truth and fiction, 1700–2000. New York: Cambridge University press, 2008.

P. 85.

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«I found one wagon that was going on to California, and made some judicious inquiries of the proprietor. When I learned…that he… would not be in the city the next day to make trouble, I got ahead of the other papers, for I took down his list of names and added his party to the killed and wounded. Having more scope here, I put this wagon through an Indian fight that to this day has no parallel in history». Ward G. Duncan D. Burns K.

Mark Twain. An illustrated biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. P. 38.

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«On the Enterprise he disliked writing reports which demanded exact facts and figures; he hated “solid facts”». Bellamy G. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. P.90.

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«In the bottom of the incline the ledge is about ten feet wide, has a casing of blue clay, and is well defined; a great quantity of quartz has been taken from it, which looks exactly like third or fourth-class Ophir, but it won't pay to crush yet awhile, although choice specimens of it have assayed as high as ninety-two dollars to the ton».

Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (April 3, 1863) / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 412.

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«At the present writing we cannot say what the net proceeds of the ball will amount to, but they will doubtless reach quite a respectable figure – say $400».

Twain M. Sanitary Ball / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 185.

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«We do not care about dictating much in the matter so long as no one will be likely to pay us for it». The new Court House (Local Column Territorial Enterprise, January 10, 1863) / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 189.