百万英镑 (The Million Pound Note)

马克·吐温一生写了大量作品，体裁涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说，他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处，表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心；从风格上说，专家们和一般读者都认为，幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。这本中短篇选集收入作者的十三篇小说，编排次序按照原作发表年份的先后；这些故事或以脍炙人口（如《百万英镑》、《竞选州长》），或比较不那么为众人所熟悉（如《哥尔斯密的朋友再度出洋》、《火车上的食人事件》），但无不生动有趣而给人启迪。(Mark Twain wrote a lot of works during his whole life, involving genres such as novel, play, prose and poetry. In view of the content, his works criticized the unreasonable phenomenon or the ugly human nature, expressed a strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of the writer once worked as a typesetter and sailor; in view of the style, the experts and the general readers thought that humor and irony are characteristics of his writing. This medium and short stories anthology contains 13 novels laid out in the same order as the original publication year; these stories are well known (e.g. The Million Pound Note, Running For Governor), or less familiar to the public (e.g. Goldsmith Friend Abroad Again, Cannibalism in the Cars), but all vivid, interesting and inspiring.)