Mark Twain 英语专业幻灯片课件.ppt

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910);-- born in Florida, Missouri -- apprenticed to a printer -- a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi -- fought in the Civil War -- went to the silver fields of Nevada -- joined the staff of Territorial Enterprise -- began his career as a frontier humorist;The Mississippi River ;;;;1. His works sum up the tradition of Western humor and frontier realism. 2. He writes about his people and his own life. 3. His greatest achievement on literature is his use of the dialect and his portrayal of the locale. “Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.” -- Mark Twain;The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn