Following The Gilded Age (1873), written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, Twain began a literary exploration of his childhood memories of the Mississippi, resulting in a trio of masterpieces--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally The Advent...
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A complete bibliography of his works is nearly impossible to compile because of the vast number of pieces written by Twain (often in obscure newspapers) and his use of several different pen names. Additionally, a large portion of his speeches and lectures have been lost or were not written ...
Book Summary:Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel memoir, “Roughing It” was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to “Innocents Abroad”, in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, “...
1868drewtheattentionofthenationtoanewgenreofwriting.In1880’sitreacheditsclimax;notuntiltheturnofthecenturydiditceasetobeadominantfashion,asitslimitedresourceswereexhausted.HarlemGarlanddefineditas:“havingsuchqualityoftextureand backgroundthatitcouldnothavebeenwritteninanyotherplaceorbyanyoneelsethananative.”...
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MARK TWAINPresents an excerpt from the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain.Scholastic Action
the relative contempt for the written as against the spoken word; the racy language; the attitudes toward dudes and the East, the two being almost synonymous; the impatience with the ways and principles of law—all these characteristics of the American frontier are to be found in Twain’s bes...
MarkTwaindescribedthemajorthemeofTheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnas “Asoundheartandadeformedconsciencecomeintocollision,andconsciencesuffersdefeat.”•“Asoundheart”=agood,honestheart.•“Adeformedconscience”=aconscienceinfluencedbythelawsofsocietyandasenseofdutytowardthoselaws.KeyFacts •Genre •SatiricNovel...
Writtenin1876MainlyaboutTom'schildhoodAbiographyofasummerAcomplicationofwhatpeopledidorwishtheydidduringtheirchildhood.MainCharacter TomSawyer:theyoungprotagonist(主角)HuckleberryFinn:thetown’spariah(被社会遗弃者)AuntPolly:Tom’sauntandguardianSidSawyer:Tom’shalf-brotherMary:Tom’seldercousinBeckyThatcher:acute...