Презентация "Биография Марка Твена"
презентация к уроку по английскому языку (11 класс) на тему

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Mark Twain – famous American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain , was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel ".

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Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer . After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens . He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada.

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His first success as a writer came when his humorous tall tale , "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in a New York weekly, The Saturday Press , on November 18, 1865. It brought him national attention. A year later, he traveled to the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii) as a reporter for the Sacramento Union . His travelogues were popular and became the basis for his first lectures.

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Throughout 1868, Twain and Olivia Langdon corresponded, but she rejected his first marriage proposal. Two months later, they were engaged. In February 1870, Twain and Langdon were married in Elmira, New York , where he had courted her and had overcome her father's initial reluctance. She came from a "wealthy but liberal family", and through her, he met abolitionists , "socialists, principled atheists and activists for women's rights and social equality “ They had three daughters: Susy (1872–1896), Clara (1874–1962) and Jean (1880–1909). The couple's marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivia's death in 1904. All of the Clemens family are buried in Elmira's Woodlawn Cemetery .

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Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn , he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at Rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language.

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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 accurate — Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding , Connecticut, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth .