(Mark Twain l835~ 19 10)
About the author:
American writer. His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain is his pen name. Born into a poor rural lawyer family in Hannibal, a small town on the Mississippi River, he went abroad as an apprentice. I worked as a compositor, a Mississippi sailor, a Confederate soldier, and also worked in the timber, mining and publishing industries, but my effective work was as a reporter and writing humorous literature.
Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature and a world-famous master of short stories. He experienced the development process from "free" capitalism to imperialism in the United States, and his thoughts and creations also showed a stage of development from light ridicule to bitter satire to pessimism.
His early works, such as the short stories "Accidentally Elected Governor" (1870) and "Goldsmith's Friends Go Abroad Again" (1870), mocked the absurdity of "democratic election" and the essence of "democratic paradise" in the United States with humorous brushwork.
Mid-term works, such as The Gilded Age (1874, co-edited with Warner), are representative novels, The Adventures of Harburg Finn (1886) and Wilson the Fool (1893), which satirize and expose the epidemic situation in the United States with profound and pungent style. The Adventures of Hakberg Finn tells the story of Huck, a white boy, and Jim, a fugitive black slave, wandering on the Mississippi River. It not only criticized the cruelty of feudalism, exposed the irrationality of lynching, but also satirized the hypocrisy and ignorance of religion, condemned the evil of slavery, praised the excellent qualities of black slaves, and advocated the progressive proposition that everyone should enjoy freedom regardless of racial status. His works are regarded as epoch-making realistic works in the history of American literature with fresh and powerful writing style and natural and unique perspective.
At the end of 19, the United States entered the stage of imperialist development. Some of Mark Twain's travel notes, essays and political essays, such as Journey to the Equator (1897), novella The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) and Mysterious Visitor (65438).
Mark Twain is known as "Lincoln in American literature". Most of his major works have been translated into Chinese.