Факт и вымысел в журналистике Марка Твена

San Francisco: George Fields, 1938. P. 52–53.

78

«American newspapers <…> contained low art and folksy humor, haphazard news items, and florid, sentiment-laden writing<…>». Underwood D. Journalism and the Novel. Truth and fiction, 1700–2000. New York: Cambridge University press, 2008. P. 85.

79

Ibid. P. 87.

80

«He hated to have to do with figures, measurements and solid facts, such as were called for in matters pertaining to mines and machinery». Nelson J. Mark Twain // A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre / Ed.

T. B. Connery. New York: Greenwood press, 1992.P. 44.

81

«Joe Goodman has assigned him to report stock quotations, earnings from some of the five hundred mines on the mountain, and public meetings in the town – the kind of rote work that drove Sam up the wall with boredom». Powers R. Mark Twain. A life.New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Free press, 2005. P.117.

82

«Entering the Spanish tunnel in A street, you grope along by candle light for two hundred and fifty feet – but you need not count your steps – keep on going until you come to a horse <…> You are now upon the confines of the ledge, and from this point several drifts branch out to different portions of the mine.

Without stopping to admire these gloomy grottoes you descend a ladder and halt upon a landing where you are fenced in with an open-work labyrinth of timbers some eighteen inches square, extending in front of you and behind you, and far away above you and below you, until they are lost in darkness». Twain M. The Spanish mine / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 164.

83

«The face of the walls is of a dark blue color, sparkling with pyrites, or sulphurets, or something, and beautifully marbled with little crooked streaks of lightning as white as loaf sugar». Twain M. The Spanish [Mine] / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol.

1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979.P. 167.

84

В оригинальном тексте использовано местоимение «мы» – таковы были стандарты журналистики.

85

«“A few inches of water deemed necessary. Every department of the Spanish mine is now in first class working order <….>». still remain in the lower gallery, but it interferes with nobody, and can be easily bailed out whenever it may be». Ibid.