高级英语Mark_Twain_Mirror_of_America.pptVIP

Mark Twain---Mirror of America Mark Twain(1835-1910) Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Born in Florida, Missouri Became nationally famous with his frontier tales, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” His first novel, The Gilded Age(1873), was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of post-bellum(美国南北战争之后) period The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876) It was an immediate success as “a boy’s book” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884) His masterwork “All modern American literature comes” (E. Hemingway) Life on Mississippi (1883) Memoir（回忆录） of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. 概述： The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twains career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Autobiography The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg He is a freelance writer whose main business is writing non-fiction books. guy who turned killer and why He has just published his 9th book, entitled Anyone But Duane, an examination of the life of a nice he got that way. He worked for 25 years as a staff writer for National Geographic Magazine. Noel Grove National Geographic? It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. River pilot Mississippi River Transcontinental Railroads Confederate guerrillas  Civil War Prospector Gold Rush Reporter  San Francisco  Mistreatment of Chinese Correspondent Writer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin General Knowledge aboutWestward Expansion Period: between the early 17th and late 19th ce