Product Details
ISBN: 0822013010
EAN: 9780822013013
Publisher: Cliffs Notes Inc.
1997, Paperback
Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.2 x 5.3 inches
Pages: 88
Language: English
BOOK OVERVIEW
A great way to study Shakespeare and Chaucer is provided in Cliffs Complete Study Editions. Each book includes the complete text based on the classic Cambridge Edition. The unique three-column format features a running commentary and glossary placed alongside the pertinent text, with 12 titles in print.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled around America as a printer; he prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating, and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He began using the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War, and it was under this pen name that he became a renowned travel writer. He took the name from his steamboat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.
Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood, and in 1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius, and eight years later, the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The renowned writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that "All modern literature stems from this one book."
Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also exceptionally sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.
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