Mark Twain

What Is Man, And Other Stories (Annotated) Mark Twain

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Mark Twain, the writer, adventurer and cunning social critic born Samuel Clemens, wrote the novels 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the famous author of several novels, including two great classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, teacher, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the small town of Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, the sixth son of John and Jane Clemens. When he was 4 years old, his family moved to nearby Hannibal, a bustling river town of 1,000 people. John Clemens worked as a storekeeper, lawyer, judge and land speculator, dreaming of wealth but never achieving that, sometimes it was difficult for him to feed his family. He was a guy without smiling; According to a legend, young Sam never saw his father laugh. Her mother, on the other hand, was a tender housewife and a fun lover who spent many winter nights with her family telling stories. He became head of the family in 1847 when John died unexpectedly. The Clemens family "now became almost destitute," biographer Everett