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MARK TWAIN AND HIS FAMOUS BOOK « THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER » ( THE ENGLISH CLUB WELCOMES ITS GUESTS)

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Mark Twain 30.11.1835 – 21.04.1910

"When in doubt,

tell the truth.”

Biography

• November 30th, 1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens is born.

• Their surviving child, Clara had one daughter. She died without having any children, so there are no direct descendants of Samuel Clemens.

• 1847- Samuel ’ s father dies

• 1865 - "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County".
• 1869 - Twain's first book, "The Innocents Abroad,« was published
• 1876 -"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ”
• 1885 - "TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn«

• 1848 – Sam leaves school to become a printer

• April 21st, 1910 - Mark

Twain passes away.

• 1858 - He becomes a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Mark Twain is a river term which means the depth of water that is safe for a steam boat to navigate.

• 1870 - Clemens married Olivia Langdon, and they had four children, one of whom died in infancy and two who died in their twenties.

Mark Twain’s House

What kind of man was he?

Witty

• "It is noble to be good;

it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble.”

• "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Serious

• "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Mark Twain once said, "To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing."

In 1876, the writer published

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer“

and in 1884

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

The writer showed boys and girls in the novels with such sympathy and understanding that readers always see themselves in these characters.

Mark Twain protested there against slavery and one of the main characters in the novel "Huckleberry Finn" is a Negro, Jim, who is honest, brave and kind.