Although his wealth is not much, it does not detract from his superb humor, wit and fame. He is one of the most famous people in America. He has a wide range of friends, including William Dean Howells, Booker Washington, nikola tesla, Helen Keller and Henry Roger. He was once known as Lincoln in the history of literature. Helen Keller once said, "I like Mark Twain-who wouldn't like him?" Even God will love him, give him wisdom, and draw a rainbow of love and faith in his heart. " William faulkner called Mark Twain "the first real American writer, and we all inherited him". He died on April 21st, 1911 at the age of 75 and was buried in Aymara, New York.
writing style: combining humor and satire, it is full of unique personal wit and witticism, and there is no lack of profound social insight and analysis. It is not only a small masterpiece of humor and acrimony, but also a serious compassion!
His masterpiece is "One Million Pounds", and he will learn 24 lessons called "The Magic of Money" in the second semester of the People's Education Edition in Grade 5.
"Mark Twain" is his most commonly used pen name. It is generally believed that this pen name comes from his early sailor's term. Mark Twain means that the water depth is 12 feet. Samuel (that is, "Mark Twain") used to be a navigator. When measuring the water depth with his partner, his partner shouted "Mark Twain!" It means "two marks", that is, the water depth is two invertors (1 invertors is about 1.1 meters), which is a necessary condition for the safe navigation of ships.
Another reason is that Cyrus, his captain, used to be a highly respected navigator. From time to time, he wrote some sketches about the story of the Mississippi River for newspapers under the pseudonym "Mark Twain".
In 1859, Captain Cyrus published an article predicting that New Orleans would be flooded. The naughty Samuel decided to play a joke on him and wrote a very sharp satirical sketch imitating his style. Who knows that this game article has deeply hurt the old captain's heart, and the old captain has since given up writing, and the pseudonym "Mark Twain" has since disappeared from the newspaper.
four years later, Samuel, who became a journalist, learned of the bad news of Captain Cyrus' death, regretted his prank in those years, and was determined to make up for this mistake, so he inherited the pseudonym "Mark Twain" and started his writing career.
However, it is also said that when wandering in the west, he often buys two glasses of wine in the hotel and asks the bartender to write "two marks" on the bill. However, whether it is true or false, or both are false, there is no way to test it. His real name is "Samuel Langhorn Clemens."
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Life
Childhood
Mark Twain was born on October 31th, 1835 in a poor lawyer's family in rural Florida, Missouri, USA. He is the sixth child of seven children in his family. He only has two brothers and sisters who can survive after childhood. His two brothers and sisters are Olian (July 17, 1825-February 11, 1897) and Pamela)(1827 September 19, 1827-August 31, 1914). His father is a local lawyer with a small income and a poor family. Little Samuel had to work when he was at school. His father died when he was twelve years old, and he began to live an independent working life. He first apprenticed in a printing house, worked as a newspaper delivery man and typesetter, and later worked as a sailor and helmsman on the Mississippi River. The poverty of childhood and long working life not only accumulated material for his later literary creation, but also cast a just heart. His mother Margaret died when he was four years old, and his brother Benjamin)(1832 June 8, 1832-May 2, 1842) also died three years later. His other brother Pleasant(1828-1829) lived only three months before Twain was born. After these brothers and sisters who were older than Mark Twain, Twain had another younger brother-Henry Clemens)(1838 July 3, 1838-June 21, 1858). When Twain was 4 years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port city on the Mississippi River, which became the inspiration for the city of St. Petersburg in his later works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Wanderer's Tale. At that time, Missouri was a federal slave state, and young Twain began to understand slavery, which became the theme in his adventure novels.
Mark Twain is color blind, which aroused his humorous jokes in social circles. In March 1847, when Twain was 11 years old, his father died of pneumonia. The following year, he became a printing apprentice. In 1851, he became a compositor and contributed articles, and began to write a draft for Hannibal Journal founded by his brother Olian. At the age of 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in new york, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Twain returned to Missouri at the age of 22. On the trip down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, the ship's pilot "Beesby" asked Twain to be a ship's pilot for life, which was the third highest paid occupation in the United States at that time, with a monthly salary of $251 (equivalent to the current $155,111/year).
At that time, because ships were made of very flammable wood, they could not turn on the lights at night. Pilots need to have a rich knowledge of changing rivers, so they can avoid hundreds of ports and woodlands along the banks. Twain spent more than two years meticulously studying the 2111 meters of the Mississippi River before he got his pilot's license (1859). During the training before getting the license, Twain persuaded his brother Henry Clemens to work with him on the Mississippi River. Henry died on June 21th, 1858, because the ship where Henry worked exploded. Twain felt extremely guilty about this and felt himself responsible for the rest of his life. But he continued to work on the river and remained a navigator until the Civil War broke out in 1861, which reduced the traffic on the Mississippi River.
Travel and Family
Missouri is a slave state and is regarded by most people as part of the South, but Missouri has not joined the Union. When the war started, Twain and his friends joined a federal militia (which was described in a short story "The private history of a campaign that failed" in 1885) and joined a war in which one person was killed. Twain found that he couldn't stand killing anyone himself at all, so he left. His friend joined the confederate army; Twain went to his brother Olian, when Olian was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada and was in charge of the west.
It took Twain and his brother more than two weeks to cross the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains by coach. They came to the Mormon society in Salt Lake City. These experiences became the main part of the book Hard Times, and provided information for the famous frog in Kacheng. Twain's journey ended at the silver mine in Virginia, Nevada. There, he became a miner.
After giving up his job as a miner, Twain worked for the Enterprise, a newspaper in Virginia City.
Twain traveled to San Francisco, California, where he continued to be a reporter and began to give speeches. He met other writers such as Brett Harder. Once he was assigned to Hawaii, and this became his first speech. In 1867, a local newspaper offered a boat trip to the Mediterranean.
During his trip to Europe and the Middle East, he wrote the famous travel letter series "A Fool's Travel" collected in 1869. He also met Charles Langdon and saw a photo of Langdon's sister Ou Li Langdon. Twain fell in love with her at first sight. They met in 1868, got engaged a year later, and got married in Aymara, new york in 1871. Ou Li via gave birth to her son Langdon, but Langdon died of diphtheria in 19 months.
in 1871, the twains moved to Hartford, Connecticut. There Olivia gave birth to three daughters: Susie, Clara and Jean. Twain also became a good friend of writer William Dean Howells.
Twain traveled to Europe again after that, which was described in a book "The Wandering Overseas" in 1881. In 1911, he returned to America and paid off his old company. Twain's marriage lasted for 34 years until Olivia died in 1914.
In 1916, Twain began to write his own autobiography for North American Review Monthly. A year later, Oxford University awarded him a doctorate in literature.
Twain lived longer than Jean and Susie. He went through a period of melancholy, which began when his beloved daughter Susie died of meningitis in 1896. Ou Li's death in 1914 and Jean's death on February 24th, 1919 made Twain even more melancholy.
writer's career
Mark Twain's first masterpiece, A Frog in Carcass, was first published in new york Saturday Newspaper on 18/11/865. The only reason why this work was published there was because it was finished too late to be included in Atems Ward's collection of works featuring the American West.
After that, the Sacramento Federal newspaper sent Mark Twain to Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands, as a correspondent and sent letters to the Federal newspaper about things there. Later, when he worked in San Francisco's California Land newspaper, he also wrote according to these humorous letters, because the California Land newspaper sent him from San Francisco to new york City via the Panama Canal as a roving reporter. At that time, he kept sending letters to newspapers for publication, recording what he saw and heard ironically and humorously. On June 8, 1867, Twain went to Philadelphia by yacht and stayed for five months. This trip led to the birth of A Fool's Travel.
In 1872, Twain published his second travel literature, Hard Years, as a sequel to A Fool's Travel. Hard Times is a semi-autobiographical description of Twain's journey to Nevada and his later life in the western United States. This book satirizes American and western societies with the criticism of "fools" to many countries in Europe and the Middle East. Twain's next work, Hard Times, focuses on American society. The later Gilded Age is not a travel literature work, because the previous two books are travel literature works, and this is his first time to write a novel. This book is also famous because it is the only book written by Twain in cooperation with others. This book was written by Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Werner.
Twain's two subsequent works are all about his experiences on the Mississippi River. A series of sketches of Old Times on the Mississippi River were published in Atlantic Monthly in 1875, and the most distinctive feature is Twain's awakening to romanticism. Twain wrote Life on the Mississippi River after Old Times. Then Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which describes his childhood in Hannibal. Twain modeled tom sawyer's character by imitating his childhood character. The book also features a supporting role, Huckleberry Finn.
Although the story of The Prince and the Beggar often appears in many movies and literary works today, it is not generally accepted. This is Twain's first attempt to write "beggar". Its disadvantage is that Twain did not have enough experience in English society. During the writing of The Prince and the Beggar, Twain also began to write The Wandering of the Naughty Boy, and also finished another travel book, The Wandering Overseas, which is Mark Twain's travel notes to Central and Southern Europe.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Twain's later work, which made him a more famous and great American writer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the sequel of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the serious atmosphere is stronger than the latter. This book has become a compulsory book in most schools in the United States, because Huck gave up obeying the rules, which many people of this age think (Huck's story is set in the 1851 s and slavery). In the summer of 1876, after its release in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain wrote about 411 pages of the story of The Wandering Children.
Twain's wife died in 1914, and only after that was he able to publish books that his wife didn't like as a book examiner and editor. One of these books is Mysterious Stranger, which was not published in Twain's lifetime, so people found three versions of the manuscript between 1897 and 1915. These three versions make the publication of this book very confusing, and now the first version written by Twain is available.
Twain's last work is his oral autobiography. Some file keepers and editors rearranged the autobiography to make it more in line with the general format, so some humorous words of Twain were deleted.
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Later generations' comments on him
The master of modern humorous literature!
a world-class writer representing American literature!
He is an urchin with a pure heart, and a knight who bravely holds a sword!
There is a library about Mark Twain
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Lincoln in American literature
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Chronology of Creation
Samuel Langhorn Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on October 31, 1835, and his father was john marshall. John Clemens is a low-level magistrate with a small income.
in the autumn of 1839, the whole family moved to hannibal, Missouri. The population there was 451 at that time.
John Clemens, the father of Samuel Clemens, died of pneumonia on March 24th, 1843. From the age of 12, that is, from 1847, Mark Twain, whose family background is poor, once worked as an apprentice, a newsboy, a compositor, a sailor, a gold digger, a reporter and so on in a printing house.
On May 1, 1852, Playboy Surprised by the Settlers was published in Boston's humorous weekly Handbag. This is Samuel Clemens' first novel. Mark Twain, a self-taught student, began to practice writing when he was an apprentice and typesetting in the printing house. He was 17 when he published his first novel. )
In June of 1864, he moved to San Francisco and worked in the Morning Post. He began to write for The San Francisco Man, when he was editor-in-chief of the novelist Brett Hart.
On 11/18/1865, new york's Saturday Post published Mark Twain's The Famous Jumping Frog in Lars County, Karaoui. Reprinted everywhere, Mark Twain began to gain fame in China. <