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* about Mark Twain 请在此输入您的副标题 Mark Twain (1835-1910) His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. an American author and humorist a journalist who satirized the hypocrisy of man and society the failure of his investments, his fatiguing travels and lectures in order to pay off his debts, the death of his wife and two daughters the darkening social life Some critics link these tragic events with the change of style in his later works, from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinist. During his seventeen years in Hartford (1874–1891) and over twenty summers at Quarry Farm, Twain wrote many of his classic novels： The Prince and the Pauper (1881) 《王子与贫儿》 Life on the Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河上的生活》 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889) 《误闯亚瑟王宫》 Twain’s greatest fame and his importance in American literature rest largely on his two best known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《汤姆·索亚历险记 》 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克费恩历险记 》 Other works 马克·吐温四大名著 Writing Characteristics Early stage: Active humor Mid-term: Satire（讽刺） Later :He used a lot of colloquial idioms and colloquial syntaxand made his writing full of allegories that lay behind the humor. 早期阶段:积极和幽默 中期:讽刺(讽刺) 后期：他用大量的俚语和口语,使他的作品充满了寓言背后的幽默。 He made colloquial speech an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country. Its influence is clearly visible in American literature. His contribution influence Mark Twain was a social critic as well. He loved freedom and justice, felt a pride in human dignity and advocated brotherhood of man. He hated despised meanness and cruelty. His writings touch upon almost every issue of his time such as politics, religion, slavery, and the persecution of the Chinese and the Jews. *