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Mark twain(1835-1910) life Birthplace: Missouri. Mississippi River Family Background: his father ,an unsuccessful storekeeper Education:At12,he stopped schooling and was apprenticed to a printer. Working Experience: a tramp printer ,a riverboat pilot, confederate guerilla, a prospector, a miner, a reporter Marriage and Children: he and Olivia got marriage in February 1870,they had four children, while the only son was died at 19 months .The marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivia’s death in 1904. He died on April 21, 1910, aged seventy-five, was buried in New York Elmar. Mark twain’s hometown The museum of Mark twain Mark twain’s Monument His masterpieces Introduction of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer his Aunt Polly, goes through a series of adventures involving his friends, Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. Tom is an escape master, and a professional trickster. He escapes punishment Tom Sawyer, a mischievous redheaded orphan taken in by many times by his tricks. Though he is often foolish and unpredictable, he also is somewhat smart and has a good sense of humor. When not trying to win his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, Tom is either getting into mischief or going on an adventure. Many times, Tom suddenly changes from his grinning self into a fearsome pirate or Indian. His laugh changes into a bloodcurdling yell or a barking captains voice. Tom Sawyers main doings are racing bugs, impressing girls with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. The best known passage in the book describes how Sawyer persuades his friends to whitewash, or paint, a long fence for him. Introduction of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn It tells a story about the United States before the Civil War, around 1850, when the great Mississippi Valley was still being settled. Here lies an America, with its great national faults, full of violence and even cruelty, yet still retaining the virtues of ‘some simplicity, some innocence,