The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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- Early Life Born Samuel Longhorn Clemens on November 30, 1835
Son of Jane (Kentucky) and John Marshall (Virginia) The sixth of
seven children, but only three siblings survived childhood Father
was an attorney and judge until he died of pneumonia when Twain was
11 Twain became a printers apprentice and educated himself in
public libraries in the evenings
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- Studied 2,000 miles of the Mississippi River before becoming a
steamboat pilot in 1859 This occupation gave him his pen name, Mark
Twain, from "mark twain," the cry for a measured river depth of two
fathoms He foresaw his brother Henrys death in a dream Developed an
interest in parapsychology Held himself responsible for Henrys
death for the rest of his life
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- Traveled all over the country as a journalist First success as
a writer came from a humorous story published in a New York weekly,
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, in 1865 Traveled
to Hawaii, then Europe and the Middle East. Compiled a collection
of travel letters in The Innocents Abroad in 1869 Married Olivia
Langdon, the sister of a friend he met abroad, in 1870 Four
children: Langdon (died at 19 mos.), Suzy, Clara, Jean He and
Olivia were married for 34 years when she died in 1904
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- Major Works The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, (1876) The Prince and
the Pauper, (1881) Life on the Mississippi, (1883) The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (1885) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs
Court, (1889)
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- Last Years Depression Suzys death in 1896 (meningitis) Olivias
death in 1904 Jeans death in 1909 Oxford University awarded him an
honorary doctorate degree In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying : "I
came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year,
and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest
disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.
The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out
together." His prediction was accurateTwain died of a heart attack
on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut, one day after the
comet's closest approach to Earth.
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting Begins in St.
Petersburg, Missouri (based on Hannibal, Missouri) sometime between
1835 and 1845 Travels through Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas Themes
Racism and Slavery Stereotypes and Identity Hemingway wrote : All
modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called
Huckleberry Finn.