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MARK TWAIN1835-1910



Introduction

y I have chosen this subject for my work as I have beenalways interested in literature.

y I¶m sure everyone heard about Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn.

y But the name Mark Twain means more than that,and this is what I¶m trying to show with my work.



His life

y Samuel Langhorne Clemens, on his real name, was born in Florida Missouri.

y When he was 4, he moved to Hannibal, a port on

Mississippi River, that would serve as the inspirationfor the 2 famous books, that are known all over the world.

y He had different jobs.y He was an printers apprentice and after a steamboat

pilot.



His lifeHe become a minerhoping to strike it richdiscovering silver.

After failing as a miner hegot a job at anewspaper´The Daily Territorial Enterprise ́ .

It is here in Virginia City where he uses for the fist

time the pen name ³Mark Twain´.



His life

y He obtained a lot of money from his writes but hespent it on bad investments, such as new inventions.

y He developed a close friendship with Henry

Huttleston Roger a principal of Standard Oil, that was the inspiration for the book ³The History of theStandard Oil Company´.

y In his final years of his life he organized the Angelfish Club, an informal organization of schoolage girls.



His life

y In november 1835, at the time of Clemens¶ birth theHarlley¶s Comet appeared on the sky.

y The next appearance of the comet was during hisdeath period, in April 1910.



P en names

y Clemens used differentpen names before Mark Twain.

y Till 1863 he signed hissketches ³Josh´.



Being a writer

y Sam published his first sketches while he was working for his brother Orion's Hannibal WesternUnion by the age of 16.

y He became a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and then for the Call andother publications

y In 1867 he published his first book ³The CelebratedJumping Frog of Calaveras County´, And ³OtherSketches´.



B eing a writer

In July 1869 hereleased a new book ³The Innocents Abroad´.

And in 1872,³Roughing it´.

1874, ³The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today´



Being a writer

y Twain settled in his house in Hartfordand devoted himself to writing.

y This is where he writed the mostfamous novel ³The Adventures of TomSawyer´, 1876.

y After a year spent in Europe with hisfamily, he writed ³A Tramp Abroad´,published in 1880.

y He next released ³Life on TheMississippi´, in 1883, ³The adventuresof Huckleberry Finn´, 1885.



Being a writer

y Twain founded his own publishing company in 1884,called ³Charles L. Webster&Company´, but closed itin 1891 due to a bankruptcy.

y Even with a poor financial situation, Samuelmanaged to finish new novels: ³The AmericanClaimant´, 1892, ³Tom Sawyer Abroad´, 1894),³ P udd'nhead Wilson´, 1894, ´ P ersonal Recollections

of Joan Of Arc´, 1895, and "The Man That CorruptedHadleyburg³, 1898.



B eing a writerDuring the first

decade of the 20 th

century he published:³A Double-BarrelledDetective Story´, 1902,³Was It Heaven? OrHell? ´, 1902, ³ExtractsFrom Adam¶s Diary´,1906, ³Eve¶s Diary´,1906, ³What Is Man?´,1906, ³Chapters FromMy Autobiography´,1906/07, ³ExtractsFrom CaptainStormfield¶s Visit toHeaven´, 1908.



B eing a writer

In december 1909 his youngest daughter, Jean,died.

He wroted ³The DeathOf Jean´, the lastsustantial work hecompleted.

Clemens vowed neverto write again.



Moments in his career

y Twain had a fascination with science and scientificinquiry.

y He became a friend of Nicola Tesla, and spent a lot of time his laboratory.

y Twain was opposed to vivisection, stating that nosentient being should be made to suffer withoutconsent.



Moments in his career

From 1901 till 1910, was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League.



Great books

³The Adventures of TomSawyer´ is concerned with the escapades of a young boy living in aMississippi River townduring a summer in the

1840s.



Great books

³Adventures of Huckleberry Finn´ isabout the adventuresfaced by Huck and Jim, arunaway slave, as they travel down theMississippi River on a

raft.



Great books

y ³The P rince and the P auper´ tells of the real-lifeevents of 1547 England, when King Henry VIII diedand his son, Edward VI, took over the throne. Addedto this historical fact is the fantastic story thatshortly before the death of the king, Edwardinadvertently switches places with Tom Canty, apauper.

y ³ P ersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc´ is a historicalnovel covering the life of France's famed martyr, written from the point of view of Sieur Louis deComte, Joan's lifelong friend.



Great books

y ³Roughing It´ is a semi-autobiographical account of Clemens' five and a half years spent in Nevada and

California during the early 1860s.y ³Letters from the Earth´, posthumously published in

1962 by from a manuscript written in 1909. Mostlikely, Mark Twain never intended Letters to bepublished, due to the unconventional opinions heexpressed within.



His legacy

Clemens' birthplace ispreserved in Florida,

Missouri, and the Mark Twain Boyhood Homeand Museum inHannibal, Missouri, isone of the most popularmuseums because itprovided the setting for

much of the author's work.



Co nclusi o n

Mark Twain is today credited with being theauthor of the Great American Novel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

What is to remember isthat William Faulknercalled Twain "the fatherof American literature."

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