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当前1页，共26页，星期一。 第一页，共二十六页。 Mark Twain’s 当前2页，共26页，星期一。 第二页，共二十六页。 Early Life Travels Marriage and children Later Life 当前3页，共26页，星期一。 第三页，共二十六页。 Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant Early Life 当前4页，共26页，星期一。 第四页，共二十六页。 a port town on the Mississippi River 当前5页，共26页，星期一。 第五页，共二十六页。 When Twain was four, his mother died, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri 当前6页，共26页，星期一。 第六页，共二十六页。 At that time, Missouri was a slave state, and young Twain became familiar with the institution of slavery, a theme he would later explore in his writing. 当前7页，共26页，星期一。 第七页，共二十六页。 when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia. 当前8页，共26页，星期一。 第八页，共二十六页。 The next year, he became a printers apprentice. In 1851, he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal 当前9页，共26页，星期一。 第九页，共二十六页。 When he was 18, he left Hannibal and worked as a printer in New York City. 当前10页，共26页，星期一。 第十页，共二十六页。 He joined the union and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider sources of information than he would have at a conventional (一般的） school. At 22, Twain returned to Missouri. 当前11页，共26页，星期一。 第十一页，共二十六页。 He worked as a river pilot until the American Civil War broke out in 1861 and traffic along the Mississippi was curtailed(缩减). 当前12页，共26页，星期一。 第十二页，共二十六页。 Travels Twain and his brother traveled for more than two weeks on a stagecoach across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City along the way. 当前13页，共26页，星期一。 第十三页，共二十六页。 Twains journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City, where he became a miner. Twain failed as a miner and found work at a Virginia City newspaper, Here he first used his famous pen name. 当前14页，