Mark Twain's Life | marktwainpoetry

Early Life:

Mark Twain was born in the small village of Florida in the state Missouri (shown on the right), he had three other siblings. He started his first job at the age of 11, even his first job was involved in the world of literature. His first job was involved in the printing press he is work was to maintain the printing presses so that they don't break down. After he started helping his brother at a local newspaper company, contributing on the writing of articles. He then left the world of literature and journalism to work as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. After a poor experience as being a riverboat pilot he returned to the world of literature and journalism at the newspaper 'Virginia City Territorial Enterprise' but instead of working on journalistic articles he started writing humours pieces. Later he started writing books, his first notable piece of literature was the book 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog Calaveras County'

Profesional Life:

Mark Twain's first notable piece of literature as mentioned before is the book "The Celebrated Jumping Frog. The story was relatively short based on a story Mark Twain had heard about at the Angels Hotel. His book was so successful that it was translated into a couple different languages such as Ancient Greek.

In between writing books or travel adventures Mark Twain commited to attending lectures where he would be a speaker or Mark Twain would write poems especially in his later years. His poems also caught attention from the public, poems such as ‘O’ Lord Our Father’ or ‘A Sweltering Day in Australia’.

After writing ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog’ Mark Twain focused on his next major publication ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’. Tom Sawyer was based on his childhood life including all the mischief he himself had performed when younger. The story also included a character named Huckleberry Finn which would be the main character of the following book written by Mark Twain.

The Book follwoing ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ was the book that made Mark Twain one the most notable figures in American Literature. This book was ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ it was a follow up of the previous book Tom Sawyer but it dropped many of the stylistic features that where used to write Tom Sawyer. Tow Sawyer was a very harsh book with crude language so much that the book was banned in many American schools. Huckleberry Finn was quite the opposite being one of the most used books for literature in school due to its more serious character of the writing. The book was so well received by critics and the public many believe it to be the very first ‘Great American Novel’.

Mark Twain last large project of his life was his autobiography which he started writing after the death of his wife in 1904. The autobiography was published first in November of 2010. It was published 100 years after his death as Twain wished it had be done.

In the end Twain had managed to publish best-selling volumes of his pieces of writing in all the 19th, 20th and 21st century.

Mark Twain also decided for his profesional work he would use a nickname that nickname would be Mark Twain, the real name of Mark Twain is Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Other Involvments:

Apart from literature Mark Twain made sure he got involved in many other parts of society, especially in politics and the sciences. Mark Twain had a clear fascination with the sciences and also befriended himself with some of the great figure heads of the scientific world at the time. It's been know well that Mark Twain was close both with Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Also Mark Twain made inventions of his own (although small) which he later also patented.

Mark Twain was also involved in politics, not as a politician but as an activist. He had his own strong political views and would most of the time fight for them. Mark Twain was an anti-imperialist dismissing the fact that the USA should annex the Philippines. He was also outraged by actions that European imperial counties where doing, he specially criticised the British and Belgian administrations. Mark Twain was also a firm believer of Civil Rights saying that if slavery was to be abolished "not only set black slaves free, but set white man free also". Mark Twain was also a supported of women's rights and he also supported the Labour movement

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