MARK TWAIN- ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

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MARK TWAINSamuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry, the latter of which has often been called the “Great American Novel”.
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MARK TWAINSAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 30, 1835, IN FLORIDA, MISSOURI. HE WAS THE SIXTH OF SEVEN CHILDREN OF JANE (NÉE LAMPTON; 1803–1890), A NATIVE OF KENTUCKY, AND JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS (1798–1847), A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA. HIS PARENTS MET WHEN HIS FATHER MOVED TO MISSOURI. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1823.TWAIN WAS OF CORNISH, ENGLISH, AND SCOTS IRISH DESCENT. ONLY THREE OF HIS SIBLING’S SURVIVED CHILDHOOD: ORION (1825–1897), PAMELA (1827–1904), AND HENRY (1838–1858). HIS BROTHER PLEASANT HANNIBAL (1828) DIED AT THREE WEEKS OF AGE
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MARK TWAINBIRTHPLACE MUSEUM IN FLORIDA MISSOURI- NOVEMBER 30, 1835
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MARK TWAINTHE LIBRARY OFTHE HARTFORT HOUSE WAS A HUB FAMILY OF THE CLEMENS FAMILY ON LOAN FROM HARTFORD HOUSE TO MARK TWAIN’S BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM LEFT PICTURE.
RIGHT PICTURE OLIVIA DRESSING TABLE BEDROOM – THE MOST FAMOUS PIECE FROM HARTFORD CONNECTICUT
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MARK TWAINTHE LANGDONS AND THE HARTFORD HOUSE. JERVIS LANGTON PICTURE, HERE WAS SAMUEL CLEMENS FATHER LANGDON WAS A WEALTHY COAL AND LUMBER. MERCHANT IN ELMIRA NEW YORK WITH TIES TO UNDERGROUND RAILROAD- RIGHT PICTURE: ON LOAN FROM MARK TWAIN’S BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM – FLORIDA MO
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MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS )WRITING DESK ON MS LANGDON ROOM. THE CLEMENS FAMILY BOUGHT MANY OF THE HOME FURNISHINGS WHILE TRAVELING BROAD. SAM CLEMENS ARIFACTS- PISTOL : RIGHT PICTURE
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MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)WHEN HE WAS FOUR, TWAIN’S FAMILY MOVED TO HANNIBAL, MISSOURI. AT THE YEAR OF 1839. WHEN HE WAS FOUR, TWAIN’S FAMILY MOVED TO HANNIBAL, MISSOURI,
A PORT TOWN ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THAT INSPIRED THE FICTIONAL TOWN OF ST. PETERSBURG IN THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. SLAVERY WAS LEGAL IN MISSOURI AT THE TIME, AND IT BECAME A THEME IN THESE WRITINGS
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MARK TWAINHIS EXPERIENCES IN THE AMERICAN WEST INSPIRED ROUGHING IT, WRITTEN DURING 1870–71 AND PUBLISHED IN 1872.
HIS EXPERIENCES IN ANGELS CAMP (IN CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA) PROVIDED MATERIAL FOR “THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY” (1865). HIS FIRST SUCCESS AS A WRITER CAME WHEN HIS HUMOROUS TALL TALE “THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY” WAS PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 18, 1865, IN THE NEW YORK WEEKLY THE SATURDAY PRESS, BRINGING HIM NATIONAL ATTENTION.
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MARK TWAINTWAIN MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1864, STILL AS A JOURNALIST, AND MET WRITERS SUCH AS BRET HARTE AND ARTEMUS WARD. HE MAY HAVE BEEN ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED WITH THE POET INA COOLBRITH. HE WROTE IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER THAT WHEN HE VISITED SAN FRANCISCO HE TELL AS MUCH AT HOME ON MONTGOMERY STREET AS HE DID ON MAIN STREET
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MARK TWAINTWAIN AND OLIVIA LANGDON CORRESPONDED THROUGHOUT 1868. AFTER SHE REJECTED HIS FIRST MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, THEY WERE MARRIED IN ELMIRA, NEW YORK IN FEBRUARY 1870
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MARK TWAINSTARTING IN 1873, TWAIN MOVED HIS FAMILY TO HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, WHERE HE ARRANGED THE BUILDING OF A HOME NEXT DOOR TO STOWE. IN THE 1870S AND 1880