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Презентация «Жизнь и творчество Марка Твена»

was the sixth of seven children.

the son of a small-town lawyer in the State of Missouri.
When the boy was five years old, he was sent to school, Little Samuel did not like school but he had many friends and was their leader. In summer, when school was over, the boys spent many happy hours on the Missouri River.

many events in
"The Adventures of Tоm Sawyer" really took place and the characters were from real life,
Tom Sawyer was very often the portrait of the writer,
Aunt Polly was his mother.

to his wife and 4 children. Samuel had to leave school and look for work. His elder brother was working as a printer and he helped the boy to learn printing.
For some years Samuel worked as a printer for the town newspaper and later for his brother, who at that time had started a small newspaper. The two young men published it themselves.
Samuel wrote short humorous stories and printed them for their newspaper.

At twenty, he found a job on a boat travelling up and down the Mississippi. On that boat he learned the work of a pilot. From this he got his pen-name "Mark Twain" (a call used for depth sounding by Mississippi pilots).

из терминов речной навигации. Тогда он был помощником лоцмана на Миссисипи, а термином «марк твен» («mark twain», дословно — «отметь две сажени») называли минимальную глубину, пригодную для прохождения речных судов.

a year.
There he began to write short stories and he was invited to work as a journalist for a newspaper.


The many professions that he did gave Mark Twain knowledge of life and people, and helped him to find his true profession—the profession of a writer.

for him.








He had one son and three daughters, whom he loved very much and was the happiest man when they were with him.
They settled in Buffalo, New York.

profession of a writer did not bring much money to Mark Twain and he had to give lectures on literature and read his stories to the public.
He visited many countries, and for a long time lived in England.
In 1907, Oxford University gave Mark Twain an honorary doctorate of letters.

and in 1884

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.

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The monument
to Mark Twain
and his Grave