Download Presentation to the lesson of English. Mark Twain

Biography and main books.
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Date of birth: November 30, 1835
Place of birth: Florida, Missouri, U.S.
Date of death: April 21, 1910 (aged 74)
Place of death: Redding, Connecticut, U.S.
Cause of death: heart attack
Main books: “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court”, “The Prince and the Pauper”.
• Children: Langdon, Susy, Clara, Jean Twain.
• Wife: Olivia Clemens.
• Education: educated himself in the libraries.
Interesting Facts.
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As a baby, he wasn’t expected to live.
Twain’s formal education was limited.
His career as a riverboat pilot was marred by tragedy.
Twain briefly served with a Confederate militia.
He struck literary gold in California.
Twain based Huckleberry Finn on a real person.
He was a bad businessman.
Twain has no living direct descendants.
• “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - is an
1876 novel about a young boy growing up
along the Mississippi River. It is set in the
fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired
by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.
• “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” - is told in
the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a
friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two
other Twain novels. It is a direct sequel to The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
• “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court” - in the book, a Yankee engineer
from Connecticut is accidentally transported
back in time to the court of King Arthur.
• “The Prince and the Pauper” - set in 1547, it
tells the story of two young boys who are
identical in appearance: Tom Canty,
a pauper who lives with his abusive father in
Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London,
and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.