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«All modern American literature came from one book by Mark Twain called «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn». This is the best our book… Nothing is written until now». Praised the works of Mark Twain American writer Ernest Hemingway.

« Вся современная американская литература вышла из одной книги Марка Твена, которая называется «Приключения Гекльберри Финна. Это лучшая наша книга… Ничего подобного не было. Ничего равного не написано до сих пор». Так оценил творчество Марка Твена американский писатель Эрнест Хемингуэй.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 180 years since the birth of Mark Twain

Mark Twain`s books

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 180 years since the birth of Mark Twain

Mark Twain`s childhood

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was born in 1835 in the small town of Hannibal on the Missisipi river .

Childhood is a romance, indifferent to obedience and diligence

Worked as a printer

When Samuel was a boy, he dreamed of becoming a sailor. At the age of 20 he found a job on a ship travelling up and down the Mississippi. Here on a ship he «found» his pen – name «Mark Twain». «Twain» means «two». «Mark Twain» was a call used by steam boat men, meant the depth of 12 feet and that it was safe for the boat to move ahead. This work gave him the opportunity to get know a great deal about life. He worked as a pilot for more than 4 years until 1861

The young man worked with the goldmines in California for a year. Here he began to write stories about camp….

Family

In 1876 he published “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”and eight years later “The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn”. As Mark Twain said later, many events in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” really happened, and the characters were from real life.

Mark twain was born during a visit by Halley`s Comet, and he predicted that he would “go out with it”.

This prediction was exact. Mark Twain died of a heart attack in 1910. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery

The Mark Twain House and Museum

The family rented a house at what was called Nook Farm in 1871 before buying land there and building a new house. They moved into the home in 1874 after its completion. The top floor was the billiards room and his private study, where Twain would write late at night; the room was strictly off limits to all but the cleaning staff. It was also used for entertaining male guests with cigars and liquor. Twain had said "There ought to be a room in this house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that."

This house is also notable for the major works written during Mark Twain's residency, including The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Clemens's invested heavily in the typesetting machine invented by James W. Paige.He also formed the firm Charles L. Webster & Company, which published Twain's writings along with Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs. Its first publication was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884.The company went bankrupt in 1894, leaving Twain with a large amount of debt.Paige's typesetting machine never functioned properly and was overpowered by competition from the linotype machine developed by Whitlaw Reid.

Restoration and preservation at the Mark Twain House helped bring the house and grounds back to the years between 1881 and 1891, when the Clemenses most loved the house. The marble floor in the front hallway underwent a historic restoration, and specialists re-stenciled and painted the walls and ceilings and refinishing the woodwork to recover the Tiffany-decorated interiorsThe home today contains 50,000 artifacts: manuscripts, historic photographs, family furnishings, and Tiffany glass. Many of the original furnishings, including Clemens's ornate Venetian bed, an intricately carved mantel from a Scottish castle, and a billiard table, remain at the house

The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford not sole. There is one more museum in Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain spent his childhood. This museum is telling us abot his childhood, his parents, his friend etc.

The project was made by students 9B Teacher :Zakharova I.A. Thank you for attention