Presentation Biography Twain

Slide 2 Grand writer Mark Twain Twain Literary pseudonym Samuel Lenghorn Clemens - an outstanding American writer, journalist, public figure. His homeland was Missouri, a small village of Florida, where he was born on November 30, their family moved to the city of Hannibal when the boy was 4 years old. The children's years spent there left such a huge baggage of impressions that he was enough for all subsequent work.

In particular, in the famous “Adventures of Tom Soyer”, Mark Twain described this particular town and its inhabitants. After death in the city, Sam began at the age of 12. At first, he helped his elder brother, who began to publish his newspaper, and it was there that his very first articles appeared from time to time. Having spent several years in wanderings around the country, Samuel gets up to work as a pilot, swims on a mississippi.

After the destruction of the private shipping ship, Clemens was forced to leave a profession that was ready to devote life. Slide 3 in g.

The desire to get rich led Twain to silver mines, into the ranks of prospectors. However, luck did not accompany him, and he began to work in the newspaper. It was at this time that for the first time in his biography, the pseudonym “Mark Twain” sounded. In the city, the first writing success comes to Mark Twain in the city of this work in all corners of the country, and it was awarded the title of the best American work genre at that time.

The story was written during a long journey: Twain sailed on a ship to Europe and Palestine. There will still be a lot of similar trips throughout the life of the writer. Slide 4 consolidated the successes in the literary field of the book "Simple abroad", the popularity of which was simply incredible. For many Americans, it was with this collection of travel essays that Mark Twain's name was associated with his whole life.

Buffalo from there - to Hartford after the marriage of Olivia Langdon. The marriage allowed him to recognize industrialists, representatives of a big business. His attitude to the era of economic growth with its violation of democracy, corruption, the power of Chistogan was expressed in a member definition, which, with his characteristic wit, gave her a writer - a “gilded age”.

At one time, E. Hemingway said that from this book “all modern American literature came out.” The writer was stopped perceived only as an author of brilliant humorous works, wit and joker. In this work, he opens another America where you can encounter cruelty, violence, injustice, racism. A number of spicy works of Twain were not published both during his lifetime and for many years after death.

Slide 5 beginning gg. He had to make extremely tiring trips, during which he actively spoke to readers. For the same reason, he spent a whole year on a trip around the world, arranging public lectures and reading his works. Once again, having seen the world, Mark Twain becomes a passionate exposure of imperial ambitions, the US colonial policy, which manifested itself in a series of pamphlets written during these years.

The work of this period, in particular, the story “The mysterious stranger” is published in, carries an imprint of pessimism, bitterness, sarcasm, and misanthropic moods. Death found Mark Twain in Connecticut, G. Redding April 21