Mark Twain's major works are: The Famous Jumping Frog in Lasi County, Karaoui (1867), A Fool's Foreign Travel (1869), Hard Times (1872) and Gilded Age (1869). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Homeless Abroad (1880), The Prince and the Poor Child (1882), On the Mississippi River (1888). Mark Twain is a compositor, helmsman and orator on the Mississippi River, and one of the greatest writers in America. His The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Harburg Finn and On the Mississippi are among the greatest works in America. Twain was deeply loved by people all his life. As a master of humor and a recorder of American history, his reputation is constantly improving. & ltbr & gt 10 was born in Florida, Missouri on October 30th, 1835, 165438, the fourth of five children. Father john marshall Clemens is a hard worker, but he can't support his family. Mark moved to Hannibal on the Mississippi River with his family when he was 4 years old. He grew up in this riverside town, collecting materials for most of his famous novels. Judge carpenter's prototype is his father; Polly menstruation is his mother; Sid Sawyer is his brother Henry, Huck Finn is a boy named Tom Blankenship in the town, and tom sawyer is a collection of several children, including Twain himself. Many of his novels were also written in this small town. From his works, people can often see his uncle John Quarles's farm. & ltbr & gt Mark Twain's father died at the age of 12. He became a typesetting apprentice, which was the first step in his writing career. 1857, learn to be a helmsman on board. After starting, I spent two and a half years in this new career. At that time, there were many ships coming and going on the river, so the helmsman played an important role in the ship. He described his experience in the Mississippi River in the past few years. & ltbr & gt The outbreak of the American Civil War ended his helmsman career. Twain went to Nevada in the west and soon became a reporter for the Virginia City Newspaper. At this time, he began to use the pen name "Mark Twain", which is the jargon used on the river earlier, meaning "12 feet deep", which means the water depth. & ltbr & gt 1864, he went to California, and the next year he wrote The Story of Jumping Frog, which was serialized in many newspapers. Later, he was sent to Hawaii for an interview and began to give lectures after returning to the United States. Soon, he traveled to the Mediterranean and the holy land of Palestine. Based on this experience, he wrote A Fool's Travel Abroad, which made him famous. & ltbr & gt 1870, he married Olivia Langdon, the daughter of a wealthy businessman in oliveira, new york. Olivia softened Twain's excessive roughness, sometimes weakened his works, and sometimes actually made his works more readable. They gave birth to three daughters. & ltbr & gt Mark Twain began to write a book every few years. William Dean howells, the editor of Atlantic Monthly and a prestigious novelist, became his good friend and literary consultant. & ltbr & gt Mark Twain bought a publishing company in Hartford, Connecticut. He made a lot of money through writing, speaking and his publishing house, but he spent all his money on high consumption and unsuccessful investments. He lost money by investing in automatic typesetting machine. By 1894, his publishing company was very depressed, which led to his bankruptcy. & ltbr & gt Twain began to make speeches all over the world to recover losses, and by 1898 he had paid off his debts. In his later years, Mark Twain was mainly engaged in traveling and speaking, and his writing was relatively reduced. April 2 19 10 died. & ltbr & gt Mark Twain is not only a joker, but also has a serious attitude towards life behind his humor. Poverty, the early death of his father, the loss of his daughter and bankruptcy all brought tragedy to his life. His short story The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg shows the greed of people in that small town and also reflects Twain's serious side. & ltbr & gt The Adventures of Harburg Finn is by no means a children's book, although it is reasonable for children to read and learn from it. It has heartbreaking plot and wisdom, and adults can appreciate it well. On the other hand, although The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a children's book, adults also like to read it.

Mark Twain (1835 ~ 19 10) English name: Mark Twain, American writer. Formerly Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 1835/kloc-0 was born in Missouri on October 30th,119/kloc-0 died in Connecticut on April 20th, 2 1. My family was poor when I was a child. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, he dropped out of school because of his father's death and began to work as an apprentice in a printing factory. When I am older, I will go out and look for a job. At the age of 2 1, he became interested in the life of a pilot on board and decided to learn from a teacher. Being a navigator on the Mississippi River for four years made him familiar with all kinds of people. This experience provided a lot of material for his later creation. His pen name Mark Twain is taken from The Life of a Boatman: Mark is Mark, Twain is Two fathoms (12 feet), and Mark Two fathoms means it is still a safe water level. 186 1 year, when the civil war broke out, he and his brother went to Nevada. He first got involved in the prospecting craze, then went to work in a newspaper and started his creative career.