能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson?能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson

能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson?能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson
能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson?
能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson

能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson?能不能用英文介绍一下mark twain 和他的作品pudd'nhead wilson
On Nov.30,1835,the small town of Florida,Mo.witnessed the birth of its most famous son.Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens.Little did John and Jane know,their son Samuel would one day be known as Mark Twain - America's most famous literary icon.
Approximately four years after his birth,in 1839,the Clemens family moved 35 miles east to the town of Hannibal.A growing port city that lie along the banks of the Mississippi,Hannibal was a frequent stop for steam boats arriving by both day and night from St.Louis and New Orleans.
Samuel's father was a judge,and he built a two-story frame house at 206 Hill Street in 1844.As a youngster,Samuel was kept indoors because of poor health.However,by age nine,he seemed to recover from his ailments and joined the rest of the town's children outside.He then attended a private school in Hannibal.
When Samuel was 12,his father died of pneumonia,and at 13,Samuel left school to become a printer's apprentice.After two short years,he joined his brother Orion's newspaper as a printer and editorial assistant.It was here that young Samuel found he enjoyed writing.
At 17,he left Hannibal behind for a printer's job in St.Louis.While in St.Louis,Clemens became a river pilot's apprentice.He became a licensed river pilot in 1858.Clemens' pseudonym,Mark Twain,comes from his days as a river pilot.It is a river term which means two fathoms or 12-feet when the depth of water for a boat is being sounded."Mark twain" means that is safe to navigate.
Because the river trade was brought to a stand still by the Civil War in 1861,Clemens began working as a newspaper reporter for several newspapers all over the United States.In 1870,Clemens married Olivia Langdon,and they had four children,one of whom died in infancy and two who died in their twenties.Their surviving child,Clara,lived to be 88,and had one daughter.Clara's daughter died without having any children,so there are no direct descendants of Samuel Clemens living.
Twain began to gain fame when his story,"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18,1865.Twain's first book,"The Innocents Abroad," was published in 1869,"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876,and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885.He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories,letters and sketches.
Mark Twain passed away on April 21,1910,but has a following still today.His childhood home is open to the public as a museum in Hannibal,and Calavaras County in California holds the Calavaras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee every third weekend in May.Walking tours are given in New York City of places Twain visited near his birthday every year.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
The setting of this novel is again the world that Sam Clemens grew up in,although now MT calls the village Dawson's Landing,and has moved it several hundred miles down the Mississippi River.The book was originally published in America,on 28 November 1894,as The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins.It began as a farce about Siamese twins -- two different temperaments inseparably linked in one body -- and wound up becoming an irony about two babies -- one slave,one free -- switched in their cradles.It was never very popular with MT's contemporaries,but as his most direct,sustained treatment of slavery it has attracted considerable attention in our time; there is as yet,however,no agreement about what it's saying.In Roxy the novel offers MT's most complex woman character.Despite the title,most commentary on the book assumes that her son,Tom/Valet de Chambers,is the central character.My own reading of it begins with the title.It is curious that MT should call it a tragedy when its ending is classically comic:true identities and an apparent social order are restored.And curiouser that he calls it Pudd'nhead Wilson's tragedy,when Wilson enacts the rise from obscurity to popularity and prestige that is usually thought of as the archetypal American success story.