Mark Twain

MARK TWAIN (1835 - 1910) Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens. The name Mark Twain originates from his time as a pilot on the Mississippi. Twain means 'two', and the second mark - mark twain - on the leadline showed the pilot that the river was two fathoms, or 3.6 metres, deep. He also worked as a printer, a gold digger and a journalist, and he stayed for some time in Europe. From 1867 he was a full time writer. He was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on the Mississippi. " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was published in 1876 and is a description of his own boyhood in the 1830s and 40s, though Tom is not Mark Twain himself, but a combination of 3 boys he knew. In 1884 appeared "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", in which Huck goes to live on an island in the Mississippi and goes down the river on a raft. Both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are books for boys and girls, but in Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain deals also with social problems such as slavery. Mark Twain was a good story-teller, and he had many adventures and stories to tell. He wrote many short stories, and his humor and his pictures of people and places still fascinate old and young readers.

Mark Twain

MARK TWAIN (1835 - 1910) Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens. The name Mark Twain originates from his time as a pilot on the Mississippi. Twain means 'two', and the second mark - mark twain - on the leadline showed the pilot that the river was two fathoms, or 3.6 metres, deep. He also worked as a printer, a gold digger and a journalist, and he stayed for some time in Europe. From 1867 he was a full time writer. He was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on the Mississippi. " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was published in 1876 and is a description of his own boyhood in the 1830s and 40s, though Tom is not Mark Twain himself, but a combination of 3 boys he knew. In 1884 appeared "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", in which Huck goes to live on an island in the Mississippi and goes down the river on a raft. Both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are books for boys and girls, but in Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain deals also with social problems such as slavery. Mark Twain was a good story-teller, and he had many adventures and stories to tell. He wrote many short stories, and his humor and his pictures of people and places still fascinate old and young readers.

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