马克吐温英文简介_Mark_Twain.ppt

“Mark Twain was a lifelong creator and keeper of scrapbooks. He took them with him everywhere and filled them with souvenirs, pictures, and articles about his books and performances. But in time, he grew tired of the lost glue, rock-hard paste, and the swearing that resulted from the standard scrapbook process. So, he came up with the idea of printing thin strips of glue on the pages to make updates neat and easy to do. Bibliography Page Mark Twain. Public Broadcasting Service. 12 Aug 2004 /marktwain/index.html. Schmidt, Barbara. Mark Twains Quotations, Newspaper Collections, and Related Resources. 4 Sep 1997. 12 Aug 2004 . Pictures from the Dave Thomson collection are found at: easylit. com. Mark Twain. 12 Aug 2004 /marktwain/twainhistory.htm. Railton, Stephen. Mark Twain and His Times. University of Virginia. 12 Aug 2004 /railton/. I found the information about Mark Twain’s scrapbook invention at the PBS site (/marktwain/index.html). I thought it was interesting information, and I included it in my scrapbook to serve as an introduction page. It sets up the idea of my scrapbook that would be something that Mark Twain would approve of since he kept scrapbooks. Mark Twain was involved in many schemes and inventions that he helped to finance, but always lost money. It is interesting that his scrapbook invention was profitable. I thought these pictures of the river boats and Twain as a young man helped to depict that period of his life when he worked on the Mississippi River. He loved his time on the river and even used “Mark Twain” as his pen name. These pictures of western towns help to illustrate the next phase of Twain’s career as a reporter. The pictures helps us visualize Twain during this period of his life. Twain enjoyed a successful marriage with his wife. He lived and wrote in New York where he met Olivia Langdon. It was here that he worked on Huckleberry Finn. When HF was published Mark Twain was astonished at the contro