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马克吐温：He was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity. His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Mark Twain the father of American literature”. Mark Twain (meaning Mark number two) was a Mississippi River term. He was successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. His colorful experience gave his resource of his writing and a wide knowledge of humanity. 1. He first won fame with the comic masterpiece “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” which described a frontier tale. 2. His first novel, The Gilded Age (1873), was a artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the post-bellum period. 3. His boyhood experience furnished him with ample material for fiction. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was an immediate success as “a boy’s book”. 4. Its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) became his masterwork. This book was first considered adult fiction, which painted a picture of Mississippi frontier life. Ernest Hemingway had such a remark---“all modern American literature comes”. 5. He set out world tour, traveling in France and Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad, which gained him wide popularity, and poked fun at both American and European prejudices and manners. He criticized the hypocrisy and corruption as well as the American’s shallowness and innocence using humorous and wit tone. His later work---The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) was filled with pessimistic and cynical tone. His contribution: 1 .Mark Twain is a great literary artist. His contribution to the development of realism and the American literature as a whole was through his humor, his theories of localism in American fiction, and his use of colloquial speech. 2. Colloquial style aiming