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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain (1835-1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Early Life. Born Samuel Longhorn Clemens on November 30, 1835 Son of Jane (Kentucky) and John Marshall (Virginia) The sixth of seven children, but only three siblings survived childhood

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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  1. Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  2. Early Life • Born Samuel Longhorn Clemens on November 30, 1835 • Son of Jane (Kentucky) and John Marshall (Virginia) • The sixth of seven children, but only three siblings survived childhood • Father was an attorney and judge until he died of pneumonia when Twain was 11 • Twain became a printer’s apprentice and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings

  3. Studied 2,000 miles of the Mississippi River before becoming a steamboat pilot in 1859 •  This occupation gave him his pen name, Mark Twain, from "mark twain," the cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms • He foresaw his brother Henry’s death in a dream • Developed an interest in parapsychology • Held himself responsible for Henry’s death for the rest of his life

  4. Traveled all over the country as a journalist • First success as a writer came from a humorous story published in a New York weekly, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” in 1865 • Traveled to Hawaii, then Europe and the Middle East. Compiled a collection of travel letters in “The Innocents Abroad” in 1869 • Married Olivia Langdon, the sister of a friend he met abroad, in 1870 • Four children: Langdon (died at 19 mos.), Suzy, Clara, Jean • He and Olivia were married for 34 years when she died in 1904

  5. Major Works • “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” (1876) • “The Prince and the Pauper,” (1881) • “Life on the Mississippi,” (1883) • “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885) • “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” (1889)

  6. Last Years • Depression • Suzy’s death in 1896 (meningitis) • Olivia’s death in 1904 • Jean’s death in 1909 • Oxford University awarded him an honorary doctorate degree • In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." • His prediction was accurate—Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.

  7. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” • Setting • Begins in St. Petersburg, Missouri (based on Hannibal, Missouri) sometime between 1835 and 1845 • Travels through Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas • Themes • Racism and Slavery • Stereotypes and Identity • Hemingway wrote : All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ”Huckleberry Finn.”

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