“Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.”
Mark Twain book The American Claimant
The American Claimant, foreword (1892)
Quotes from bookThe American Claimant
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author to do so. This was also an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature . Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to turn to from time to time.
