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Unit 3;1．Mark Twain is considered as the greatest author and humorist of 19th Century American Literature. 2．List Mark Twain’s famous works. Do you know about his early life?; Samuel Clemens, more commonly known as Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. Twain is considered the greatest author and humorist of 19th Century American Literature (文学). His novels and stories about the Mississippi River: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894) are still popular with modern readers.; In 1839 the Clemens family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River where young Sam experienced the excitement and colorful sights of the waterfront (码头)．Like many authors of his day he had little formal education. His education came from the print shops and newspaper offices where he worked as a youth.In 1853 Clemens left Hannibal to travel.On a trip to New Orleans he persuaded a riverboat pilot to teach him his skill. By the spring of 1859 Clemens was a licensed riverboat pilot.; After an unsuccessful attempt at gold and silver mining he joined the staff of a newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada. He first wrote under the pen name Mark Twain in 1863. Twain wrote his first popular story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in 1865.; He continued to travel as a reporter for various newspapers, and in 1869 his travel letters from Europe were collected into the popular book The Innocents Abroad.Encouraged by his success Twain married Olivia Langdon and settled down in Hartford, Connecticut to his most productive years as a writer. Between 1873 and 1889 he wrote seven novels including his Mississippi River books as well as The Prince and the Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)．; As Twain’s life and career progressed he became pessimistic (悲观的), losing much of the humorous tone of his earlier years. More and more of his work express