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* * * * * Mark Twain (1835-1910)马克·吐温 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》 Portrait of Mark Twain Book Covers Life Penname of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Birthplace: Missouri Family Background: his father, an unsuccessful storekeeper Education: At 12, he stopped schooling and was apprenticed to a printer. Working Experience: a tramp printer, a riverboat pilot, Confederate guerilla, a prospector, a miner, a reporter Literary Career 1865: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County《加拉维县有名的跳蛙》 1869: The Innocents Abroad《傻子出国记》 1872: Roughing It《艰苦岁月》 1873: The Gilded Age《镀金时代》 1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer《汤姆·索耶历险记》 1880: A Tramp Abroad 《国外的旅行者》 1882: The Prince and the Pauper《王子与贫儿》 1883: Life on the Mississippi《密西西比河上的生活》 1884: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》 1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court《亚瑟王朝廷上的康涅狄格州美国人》 1894: The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson《傻瓜威尔逊的悲剧》 1896: Personal Recollections of Joan of Ark《贞德传》 1897: Following the Equator《赤道环游记》 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》 1906: What Is Man《什么是人》 1916: The Mysterious Stranger《神秘的陌生人》 assessment one of the first and foremost realists and humorists. “the Lincoln of our literature.” (W. D. Howells); Beginning as a local colorist, he wrote fiction which has become part of the American cultural tradition. Combining American frontier humor and serious storytelling conventions, he produced a body of work of enduring value. He initiated the vernacular tradition of American fiction. He made colloquial speech an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country. The style has swept American literature and made books before and after quite different. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Basic information: it is the most taught novel and most taught work of American literature in American schools from junior high to graduate school, Commonly recognized as one of the Great American Novels, the work is among the fi