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1、The introduction of Mark Twain 赵庆朝,Mark Twain (18351910),Early life Marriage Late life,The Name of Mark Twain,Twains real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens (塞缪尔朗赫恩克列门斯) . Mark Twain,which meanswatermark two,was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into sh

2、allow water.,Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910) was born in Florida,USA. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi River .His hometown was a slave state and gave him a lot of writing inspiration .,Mark Twain (1835 -1910),Mark Twain (1835 -1910),Mark Twain was not a

3、healthy baby. In fact, he was not expected to live through the first winter. But with his mothers tender care, he managed to survive. As a boy, he caused much trouble for his parents. He used to play jokes on all of his friends and neighbors. He didnt like to go to school, and he constantly ran away

4、 from home.,when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia（肺炎）. The next year, he became a printers apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter(排字工人) and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal,When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New

5、York City.,He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider sources of information than he would have at a conventional (一般的) school. At 22, Twain returned to Missouri.,He worked as a river pilot(内河引航员) until the American Civil War broke out in 1861 and tra

6、ffic along the Mississippi was curtailed(缩减).,Travels,Twain and his brother traveled for more than two weeks on a stagecoach(公共马车) across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City along the way.,Twains journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virgini

7、a City, where he became a miner. Twain failed as a miner and found work at a Virginia City newspaper, Here he first used his famous pen name.,During his tour of Europe and the Middle East, he wrote a popular collection of travel letters, which were later compiled as The Innocents Abroad in 1869.,Mar

8、riage and Children,Charles Langdon showed a picture of his sister, Olivia, to Twain; Twain claimed to have fallen in love at first sight.,They got married in February 1870 . They had four children, while the only son was died at 19 months. The couples marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivias death in

9、 1904.,Later Life,Twain passed through a period of deep depression, which began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died. Olivias death in 1904 and Jeans on December 24, 1909, deepened his gloom. On May 20, 1909, his close friend Henry Rogers died suddenly.,He formed a club in 1906 for girls he viewed as

10、 surrogate granddaughters, the Angel Fish and Aquarium Club.(天使鱼水族俱乐部),Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding, one day after the comets closest approach to Earth.,Mark Twain gave pleasure real intellectual enjoyment to millions, and his works will continue to give such pleasure to millions yet to come. His humor was American, but he was nearly as much appreciated by Englishmen and people of other countries as by his own countrymen. He has made an enduring part of American literature.,well-known saying,Comity is such a kind of intense emotion of sanctity is thus