Mark Twain. 62 books (LIT)

作者: Mark Twain

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Author: Mark Twain

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A Double Barrelled Detective Story.lit

Adventures of Tom Sawyer.lit

70Th Birthday Speech.lit

A Connecticut Yankee Illus.lit

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.lit

A Double Burrelled Detective Story.lit

A Horse's Tale.lit

A Tramp Abroad.lit

Adam's Diary.lit

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.lit

Alonzo Fitz And Other Stories.lit

American Vandal Abroad.lit

Babies.lit

Bad Little Boy.lit

Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven.lit

Captain Stormfield.lit

Carnival of Crime in CT.lit

Christian Science.lit

Curious Republic Of Gondour.lit

Death Of Mark Twain.lit

Detective Story.lit

Encounter With An Interviewer.lit

Extracts From Adam's Diary.lit

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences.lit

Following The Equator.lit

Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again.lit

Good Little Boy.lit

How To Tell A Story And Other Essays.lit

Innocents Abroad.lit

Is Shakespeare Dead.lit

Joan Of Arc V 2.lit

Jumping Frog.lit

Letters From The Earth.lit

Life On The Mississippi.lit

Little Bessie.lit

Mark Twain's Speeches.lit

My Watch.lit

Niagara.lit

On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying.lit

Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc Vol 2.lit

Plymouth Rock And The Pilgrims.lit

Rambling.lit

Sandwich Islands Lecture.lit

Siamese Twins.lit

Sociable Jimmy.lit

Some Rambling Notes Of An Idle Excursion.lit

Stolen White Elephant.lit

Story Of A Speech.lit

The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories.lit

The Comedy of those Extraordinary Twins.lit

The Gilded Age, A Tale Of Today.lit

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.lit

The Mysterious Stranger.lit

The Prince And The Pauper.lit

The War Prayer.lit

The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech.lit

Those Extraordinary Twins.lit

Toast To Woman.lit

Tom Sawyer, Abroad .lit

Tom Sawyer, Detective.lit

Tom Sawyer.lit

True Story.lit

What Is Man And Other Essays.lit

What Is Man.lit

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri; his family moved to the port town of Hannibal four years later. His father, an unsuccessful farmer, died when Twain was eleven. Soon afterward the boy began working as an apprentice printer, and by age sixteen he was writing newspaper sketches. He left Hannibal at eighteen to work as an itinerant printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on Mississippi steamboats, advancing from cub pilot to licensed pilot.

After river shipping was interrupted by the Civil War, Twain headed west with his brother Orion, who had been appointed secretary to the Nevada Territory. Settling in Carson City, he tried his luck at prospecting and wrote humorous pieces for a range of newspapers. Around this time he first began using the pseudonym Mark Twain, derived from a riverboat term. Relocating to San Francisco, he became a regular newspaper correspondent and a contributor to the literary magazine the Golden Era. He made a five-month journey to Hawaii in 1866 and the following year traveled to Europe to report on the first organized tourist cruise. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867) consolidated his growing reputation as humorist and lecturer.

After his marriage to Livy Langdon, Twain settled first in Buffalo, New York, and then for two decades in Hartfort, Connecticut. His European sketches were expanded into The Innocents Abroad (1869), followed by Roughing It (1872), an account of his Western adventures; both were enormously successful. Twain's literary triumphs were offset by often ill-advised business dealings (he sank thousands of dollars, for instance, in a failed attempt to develop a new kind of typesetting machine, and thousands more into his own ultimately unsuccessful publishing house) and unrestrained spending that left him in frequent financial difficulty, a pattern that was to persist throughout his life.

Following The Gilded Age (1873), written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, Twain began a literary exploration of his childhood memories of t

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