Steem Bangladesh Contest || My Favourite Writer: Mark Twain.

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Todays I will write about a famous writer, who has a pen name called Mark Twain. He was very famous in the English literature. So today I will write about him in a nutshell.



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THE ONSET

Mr. Samuel Langhorn Clemens, the person who was known by his pen name Mark Twain, he was an American writer, a humorist, an entrepreneur, a publisher and a lecturer. He was marked as "the greatest comedian of the United States that has ever made" and Great William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its next part , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has constructed in 1884, it was often referred to as "The Great American Novel". Twain was in high demand as a featured speaker, performing a single stand-up comedy similar to modern stand-up comedy.

Twain has made a lot of money from his writings and lectures, but he has invested in most of the loss-making ventures - such as the Piez compositor, the mechanical typesetter that did fail due to its complication and inefficiacy. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of this financial catastrophe, but over time Henry Hutlston overcame his financial problems with the help of Rogers. Despite the bankruptcy that set him free, he eventually paid off all his debts. He was born closely after the appearance of the Haley Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it"; He died the day after the comet moved closer to Earth.

MARK TWAIN'S EARLY LIFE

SUBJECTDETAILS
Original NameSamuel Langhorne Clemens.
Born Time & PlaceNovember 30, 1835. Florida, Missouri, United States.
FatherJohn Marshall Clemens.
Pen nameMark Twain, Josh, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.
ProfessionWriter, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer.
Relative(Brother)Orion Clemens .

He was one of Jane's seven children (Nam Lampton; 1803-1909) and John Marshall Clemens (1798-1874), a native of Kentucky and Virginia. His parents have met when his father shifted to Missouri. They were married in 1833. Twain was of Cornish, English and Scottish-Irish descent. All three of his siblings survived childhood: Orion (1825-1897), Henry (1838–1858) and Pamela (1827–1894). His brother, Pleasant Hannibal (1828), died at the age of three weeks, his sister Margaret (1830-1839) when Twain was three years old, and his brother Benjamin (1832-1841) three years later.When he was four years old, Twain's family moved to Hannibal, Mississippi, on the banks of the Missouri River, which inspired the fictional city of St. Petersburg with the adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His father was a lawyer and judge, and Twain died of pneumonia in 1847 at the age of 11.

He dropped out of school the following year, after fifth grade, to become a twin printer apprentice. In the early 1851, he started working as a typesetter and created articles and humorous sketches to a journal owned by Orion in the Hannibal Journal. When Twain left the Hannibal at the age of 18 and he worked as a printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati, he joined the newly established International Typographic Union Printer Trade Union. He educated himself in the public library in the evenings, finding more detailed information than conventional schools.

BOYHOOD IN MISSISSIPI

Twain described Life in Mississippi in his musical life and said that there was "a lasting ambition" among his colleagues: to be a steamboatman. "The pilot was the highest position of all. The pilot had a royal salary even in the days of meager wages - one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and there was no pay board." As Twain described, the pilot's dignity surpassed that of the captain. The pilot had to "get a warm personal acquaintance with every old snatch and one-legged piece of cotton wood and every pile of obscure wood adorned on the banks of this river twelve hundred miles away; and more than that, must know where these things are in the dark."

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Steamboat pilot Horace E. Bixby hired Twain as a cube pilot to teach the river between New Orleans and St. Louis for 500 (equivalent to $ 15,000 in 2019) for the first money at the end of graduation. Twain studied Mississippi, learned its signs, how to navigate its currents effectively, and how to read the river and its constantly shifting channels, reefs, submerged ravines, and rocks that "spread life out of the most powerful ship." . It took him more than two years to get his pilot's license.

Piloting also gave him the name of his pen from "Mark Twain," the top cry for a two-bath (12-foot) deep river, which was safe water for a steamboat. As a young pilot, on the steamer with Clemens Grant Marsh. B. worked in the Chamber, which became famous for its work as a steamboat captain on the Missouri River.

LIFE LIED IN THE AMERICAN WEST

Orion became secretary to Nevada Territory Governor James W. Noah in 18 181, and Twain joined him as he moved west. The brothers traveled on stagecoaches across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains for more than two weeks, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City. Twain's journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, where he turned to mining at Comostok Load. He failed as a miner and went to work for the Virginia City Newspaper Territorial Enterprise under a friend, author Dan DeQuile.

Mr. Twain used the name of his own writing here on February 3, 1863, at the time when he wrote a ridiculous travel account entitled "Letter from Carson - again Joe Goodman; Gov. Johnson's Music at the Party" and signed "Mark Twain". His experience in the American West was inspired by Roofing Brick, written in 1880–1 and published in 1872. Twain moved to San Francisco in 18644, still as a journalist, and met writers such as Bret Hart and Artemis Ward. He may be romantically involved with the poet Ina Culbrith. His first success as a writer came when his humorous long story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavares County" was published in the New York Weekly Saturday Press on November 18, 1865 and attracted national attention.

In 1867, a local newspaper financed his Mediterranean voyage to the beach in Queer City, including a trip to Europe and the Middle East. He wrote a collection of travel letters which was later compiled as Innocent Abroad (1869). On this trip he met his companion Charles Langdon, who showed him a picture of his sister Olivia. He later asserted to have fallen in love at first sight. Upon his return to the United States, Twain was offered honorary membership in 1868 at Yale University's Secret Society Scroll and Key.

WRITING CAREER OF MARK TWAIN

  • Overview of the career

Twain began his career writing light, funny verses, but he became a chronicle of arrogance, hypocrisy and murder of mankind. In the middle of his career, he combined Hackleberry Finn's rich humor, strong narrative and social criticism. He was a master of conversational lectures and helped create and popularize a distinct American literature based on American themes and languages.

Twain began his career writing light, funny verses, but he became a chronicle of arrogance, hypocrisy and murder of mankind. In the middle of his career, he combined Hackleberry Finn's rich humor, strong narrative and social criticism. He was a master of conversational lectures and helped create and popularize a distinct American literature based on American themes and languages. His various compositions have been suppressed at different times for different reasons. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn in American high school have been repeatedly restricted, not to the frequent use of the word "nigger," which was common in the case when the novel was written in the pre-Civil War era.

  • Journalism & His Travelogues

Twain wrote for the Virginia City newspaper Territorial Enterprise in 1863, when he met Tom Fitch, editor of the rival newspaper Virginia Daily Union and a lawyer known as the "silver language of the Pacific Ocean." He credited Fitch with giving his "first truly profitable lesson" in writing. "When I first started lecturing and in my previous writings," Twain later commented, "my only idea was to make comic capital from what I saw and heard." Crowds in Washoe City, Nevada.

During this time Twain became the author of the Sagebrush School; He was later known as the most famous member of it. His first major work was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", published in the New York Saturday Press on November 16, 1865. After an explosion of popularity, the Sacramento Union commissioned him to write a letter about his travel experience. The first voyage he made for this work was to take the steamer Ajax on its first voyage to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). All the while, he was writing letters to the newspaper for publication, prolonging his experiences with humor.

These letters proved to be a descendant of his work with the San Francisco Alta California newspaper, which nominated him as a travel correspondent to travel from San Francisco to New York City via Panama Eastmas. On June 18, 1867, he embarked on the joyous cruiser Coke City for five months, and the voyage led to Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims. In 18722, he published his second travel book, from Missouri to Nevada, his later life in the American West, and his account of a trip to Hawaii.

EMPHASIZE ON WRITING

During this time he wrote "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" for Century Magazine. This piece describes in detail his two weeks in a Confederate militia during the Civil War. He then turned to the Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's court, composing with the same historical fiction as Prince and Popper. A Connecticut Yankee showed irrationality by placing political and social customs at the court of King Arthur. The book began on December 16, then was preserved until the summer of 1887, a few months later, and finally ended in the spring of 1889.

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The novel also tells the story of two boys born on the same day that change the course of life like The Prince and Popper. It was serialized in a first-century magazine, and when it was finally published in book form, Pudd'nhead Wilson appeared as the main headline; However, "Subtitles" can read the full of the title by Pudd'nhead Wilson's Tragedy and The Extraordinary Twins' Comedy. Twain's next venture was a direct fiction work that he called a personal recollection of Joan of Arc and dedicated to his wife. He has long said that this is the work he is most proud of, although he has been criticized for it. The book had been his dream since childhood and he claimed that as a teenager he received a manuscript about the life of Joan of Arc.

MARRAIGE & FAMILY

Twain and Olivia Langdon wrote letters throughout 1868. After she rejected his first marriage proposal, they married in Elmira, New York, in February 1870, where he courted her and overcame her father's initial reluctance. He came from a “rich but generous family”; Through her, she met with abolitionist, "socialist, atheist atheists and leaders for women's rights and social equality," including Harriet Justice Stowe, Frederick Douglas, and utopian socialist writer William Dean Howles, who became longtime friends. Clemensis lived in Buffalo, New York from 1869 to 1871. He was a partner at Buffalo Express and worked as an editor and writer.

While they were in Buffalo, their son Langdon died of diphtheria at the age of 19 months. They had three daughters: Susie (1872–1896), Clara (1874–1962), and Jean (1880–1909). Clemens David Gray, who worked as the editor of the rival Buffalo Courier and befriended his wife Martha. Twain later wrote that Gray and "Liffy's" sad and miserable short-lived life in Buffalo was "all peace," and that Gray's "interesting gift of poetry" was lost working for a newspaper. In November 18722, Twain was a passenger on the steamship Batavia on the Chunard Line, which rescued nine crew members from the British Burke Charles Ward.

ECONOMICAL WOE OF TWAIN

Twain has made a lot of money through his writing, but he has lost a lot through investing. He mostly invested in new inventions and technologies, especially pig typesetting machines. It was a beautifully engineered mechanical surprise that surprised viewers when it worked, but it was in danger of breaking down. Twain spent $ 300,000 (equivalent to ,$9,000,000 in inflation-adjusted terms between 1880 and 1894, but it was defunct by linotype before it was perfect. He lost most of his book profits, as well as his wife's inheritance)

He also spoiled money through his publishing house, Charles L. Babster & Company, which he enjoyed the great success of selling memorabilia of Ulysses S. Grant but soon failed, losing money in the biography of Pope Leo XIII. Less than 200 copies were sold. Twain and his family moved to Europe in June 1899, closing their expensive Hartford home in response to declining incomes. William Lafan of The New York Sun newspaper and the McClure Newspaper Syndicate bestowed him multiple European letters. Twain, Olivia and their daughter Susie all had health problems and believed that European bathing would be an advantage.

LIVING STATE & DEATH

Twain lived on 14 West Tenth Street in Manhattan in his later years. He died of severe depression after his daughter Susie died of meningitis in 1896. Olivia's death in 1904 and Jean on December 24, 1909 deepened his darkness. On the date of May 20, 1909, Twain's very close friend Henry Rogers died suddenly.. In April 1906, he heard that his friend Ina Culbright had lost everything she owned in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and that she had volunteered to photograph several volunteers to sell for her benefit.

To further assist Coolbright, George Wharton James visited Twain in New York and arranged a new portrait session. He was resistant at first, but in the end he admitted that the resulting four pictures were his best pictures ones. Twain was born in 1835, two weeks after the closest approach to the Haley comet; He said in 1909. Mark Twain's prognosis was appropriate; He died of a heart attack at Stormfield on April 21, 1910, a day after the comet was closest to Earth.

NOTEABLE WORKS OF MARK TWAIN

BOOK NAME & YEARGENERE
The Innocents Abroad(1869)Travel Book.
Roughing It(1872)Semi-autobiographical Travel Literature.
The Gilded Age(1873)Novel .
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876)Novel .
A Tramp Abroad(1880)Travel Literature .
The Prince and the Pauper(1881)Novel .
Life on the Mississippi(1883)Memoir .
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884)Novel.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court(1889)Novel .
Following the Equator(1897)Travelogue .

MARK TWAIN'S FAMOUS QUOTES

"It's your age, which is an issue of mind over matter. But if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”



REFERENCE LINKS

Reference Source https://marktwainhouse.org/about/mark-twain/major-works/
Reference Sourcehttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/525229-age-is-an-issue-of-mind-over-matter-if-you/

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 3 years ago 

Nice work. Try to do better.

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Thanks for your notification. But before posting, I had made it 100% plagiarism free. But now it is showing it. May be similarity of the name found it plagiarized. But I will be more cautious about it in the future.

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