Novelist Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Living place: Connecticut

Birthday: 30-11-1835

Global rank: #8743

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Who is Novelist Mark Twain?
Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is an American novelist, humorist, and motivational speaker. He is considered the most humorous writer in the United States, a novelist with great creativity.
At the age of 4, he and his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a port town west of the Mississippi River. Sam Clemens grew up in the town of Mississippi and used to play in the woods, swim in rivers and read adventure books. When he was 11 years old, his father died, he moved to his brother's house named Orion to learn a trade in printing and journalism. At that time, Sam used to work in many places such as New York, Keokuk. He dreamed of going to South America to find gold, dreaming of a way to get rich quickly.
In 1857, he learned to drive a train with Horace Bixby, and was very interested in this profession. His experiences and memories from this period were included in his work "Life on the Mississippi River". In 1859, he obtained his license to sail on the river, but at that time the American Civil War stopped all traffic on the Mississippi.
During the American Civil War, he joined the Military Forces. In the South, but after only 3 weeks, he fell asleep. He fled to Nebraska state to pursue a career as a silver miner, then wandered from place to place, finally settling in Virginia City. He wrote articles for the local newspaper Territorial Enterprise.
In 1863, Sam Clemens took the pseudonym Mark Twain, a word associated with memories of when he was a boatman on the Mississippi River. After a quarrel with the newspaper owner, he left Nebraska and moved to California in early 1864. From 1865, he became famous after publishing "The Leaping Frog of Calaveras County - the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". When the Pacific Steamboat Company inaugurated the waterway linking San Francisco and the Hawaiian islands, then known as the Sandwich Islands, he worked for the Sacramento Union newspaper and was sent as a reporter. . He wrote a series of satirical articles to visitors, and quickly gained a reputation as a humorous writer.

Mark Twain is bringing a conversational style to the American literary style and building on the short stories that have made him quickly famous. His works specialize in mocking the customs, practices, and institutions of society at that time. The book "Living in poverty", which is a work about the life of a miner and a journalist, is a pretty good work. Mark Twain's first novel was "The Gilded Age", co-written with Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873. This is a work about social life after the Civil War, through which . He left behind many manuscripts, large and unfinished autobiography. Although he was a person with many disappointments before life, he also saw the romantic and brilliant images of society, customs... and incorporated it into his works, making him He became a famous novelist. A great contribution of Mark Twain to American literature is that it is a very special style of writing, different from the writing style of British authors. He is considered a master of languages ​​and is one of the first-rate American writers.

Works:

  • Living in poverty. (Roughing It)
  • The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
  • Life on the Mississippi (Life on the Mississippi - 1883)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 1884)
  • The Yankee from Connecticut in the court of King Arthur (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - 1889)
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1876)
  • Going Abroad (A Tramp Abroad -1880)
  • The Person sitting in the Darkness - 1901)
  • Monologue of King Leopold (King Leopold 's Soliloquy -1905)
  • The American Claims (The American Claimant - 1892)
  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)
  • Innocents Abroad, 1869)
  • Golden Age son (The Gilded Age - 1873).
  • The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - 1894) b
  • Following the Equator - 1897)
  • The Man that Corrupted Hadleburg - 1899)
  • The Mysterious Stranger (-1916)
  • Concerning the Jews (Concerning the Jews. 1934)
 
 

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Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon in 1870. His wife was a daughter of a rich and prestigious family. After 5 years of marriage, he left his family to Elmira city in New York state and then moved to Hartford city, Connecticut in 1871. In 1872, his son Langdon was stillborn due to leukemia. almost when the boy was only 19 months old. From 1872-1880, they gave birth to three daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean. In 1874, his family moved into a luxury apartment in the city of Hartford.

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When was Novelist Mark Twain born?
Mark Twain was born in 30-11-1835, death year is , at the age of 189.
Where is Novelist Mark Twain's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Mark Twain was born in Missouri, . Mr working and living in Missouri. Mr, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Mark Twain's global rank is 8743 and whose rank is 2 in list of famous Novelist.
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Birthday Mark Twain (30-11) in history

  • Day 30-11 year 1804: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried for political bias.
  • Day 30-11 year 1900: Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
  • Day 30-11 year 1940: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married.
  • Day 30-11 year 1966: Barbados became independent of Great Britain.
  • Day 30-11 year 1974: The fossilized remains of a female human ancestor named Lucy (after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) were found in Ethiopia.
  • Day 30-11 year 1993: The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases, is signed.
  • Day 30-11 year 1995: President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland.
  • Day 30-11 year 2004: Ken Jennings ended his 74-game winning spree on the game show, Jeopardy!
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