Презентация Марк Твен

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Mark Twain (literary pseudonym Clemens Samuel Langhorne ) - a prominent American writer, journalist, social activist.

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He was born November 30, 1835 in the family judge in Missouri, a small village of Florida.

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Childhood years were full of impressions that they have enough for all subsequent work. In particular, the famous "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain described it this town and its inhabitants.

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After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens family left with big debts. Sam began to work in 12 years. At first he helped his older brother, who began to publish his newspaper, and it was there from time to time it appeared the very first article.

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In 1861, he followed his elder brother to the west of the country in Nevada. Desire to get rich Twain led to the silver mines, the ranks of the miners. Good luck to him not accompanied, and he began working in the newspaper.

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In 1864, settled in San Francisco, and in this city he has been cooperating with a number of periodicals.

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The first success came to the writer Mark Twain in 1865 thanks to the humorous story "The famous prancing frog from Calaveras", written by folk motives. This artwork is read all over the country.

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Consolidate the gains in the literary field book "The Innocents Abroad" (1769), whose popularity was unbelievable. Many Americans with this collection of travel essays associated name Mark Twain in his life.

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In 1876 came out had a runaway success "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and in 1885 - they continued "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." At the time, Ernest Hemingway said that one of the book "went all modern American literature."

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Writer no longer perceived only as the author of the brilliant comic works, wit and practical joker. In this work, he discovers another America, where it is possible to face the cruelty, violence, injustice, racism.

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The beginning of 90-s. opens the most difficult period in the biography of the writer. In 1894, Mark Twain's publishing company went bankrupt, forcing him to urgently look for other sources of income.

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For the same reason he spent a whole year in the world tour, organizing public lectures and reading their works.

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Once again, to see the world, Mark Twain became a passionate witness against the imperial ambitions of the colonial policy of the United States that was showed in a series written in the years of pamphlets.

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Work of this period, in particular, the novel "The Mysterious Stranger" (published in 1916), bears the stamp of pessimism, bitterness, sarcasm.

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Death found Mark Twain in Connecticut, the city of Reading 21 April 1910 g . Writer buried in Elmira.