| I. Mark Twain
II. Jack London
III. Balzac
IV. Jonathan Swift
V. Conan Doyle
VI. Bernard Shaw
VII. Robert Burns
VIII. Erich Remarque
IX. Samuel Johnson
X. George Washington
XI. Abraham Lincoln
XII. Isaac Newton
XIII. Columbus
XIV. Benjamin Franklin
XV. Diogenes
XVI. Alexander the Great
XVII. Rembrandt
XVIII. Joseph Turner
XIX. Michelangelo
XX. Rossini
XXI. Paganini
XXII. Haydn
XXIII. Mozart
XXIV. Murillo
XXV. Enrico Caruso
XXVI. Chaplin
| 1. His father could not write.
2. He was the founder of the social realistic drama in English literature.
3. His mother had a nice voice.
4. He had his own strong rules of conduct.
5. He was born and died on the same date.
6. When he was 11 his father died and left several farms.
7. But he worked as a clerk in an office.
8. He lived with his parents and his sister in a hut made of logs.
9. Later, he became a lawyer.
10. When he was 13 years old, he never went to school again.
11. He was born in an old colonial family of a farmer.
12. He was sent to college where, as he said later, he had learned nothing.
13. His mother was a very good storyteller.
14. After the age of 14 he had to work hard.
15. His father was an artist and architect by profession.
16. People admire his appearance and mind.
17. During his school years he read much, and he often told his school friends long and interesting stories, getting cakes and sweets.
18. He is one of the greatest scientists of all times.
19. “I bought paper and ordered myself to write five pages of it a day.”
20. In 1891 he gave up his medical work and devoted all his time to his literary activity.
21. “I had so much of the schoolboy and the clerk in me that if my five pages ended in the middle of a sentence I did not finish it until next day.”
22. In all his life he never went to school for more than a year, and then he had five different teachers.
23. His father was s farmer and had died before his son was born.
24. He was only 14 years old when he first sailed to the East.
25. He was the greatest painter that England has ever produced.
26. His mother was a clever woman for whom her son retained a great love all his life.
27. He loved common people and wrote for them.
28. He and his crew were on the ocean for ten weeks.
29. He simply couldn’t accept all the invitations that came in.
30. He was taught to work in the fashionable style but he never lost his intuitive understanding of nature.
31. He died never knowing that he had discovered a new continent.
32. Being extremely talented and having extraordinary memory and encyclopedic knowledge he was able to express on the canvas various effects of light — the rise of the sun, passing storms … none of which had ever been set on the canvas before.
33. Though he had little formal education, he was well read and talented.
34. Everybody loved him, and everybody wanted to know his opinion on everything that was going on in the world.
35. He painted in a style absolutely outside his own time; perhaps he was the first great artist to do so!
36. He was known as a very witty man.
37. He had had great sorrows in his life.
38. He the cheerful, the gay, the humorous.
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