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* about Mark Twain 请在此输入您的副标题 Mark Twain (1835-1910) His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. an American author and humorist a journalist who satirized the hypocrisy of man and society the failure of his investments, his fatiguing travels and lectures in order to pay off his debts, the death of his wife and two daughters the darkening social life Some critics link these tragic events with the change of style in his later works, from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinist. During his seventeen years in Hartford (1874–1891) and over twenty summers at Quarry