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Adventures
Of Huck Finn Critics

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain told the truth in great novels and memoirs
and short stories and essays, and he became a writer of international renown
still translated into 72 languages. He became, through the written and spoken
word, America's greatest ambassador and its most perpetually quoted. Samuel L.
Clemens was born in 1835 in a town called Florida, Mo., and before he became a
famous writer under the pen name Mark Twain, he worked on a riverboat, as a
prospector for gold, as a reporter, and at other enterprises( Twain 12). He was
not a young man of excellent reputation - a conclusion reached by Jervis
Langdon, an Elmira businessman who had been asked by young Sam for his daughter
Livy`s hand. Still, the marriage occurred and, shortly thereafter, in 1871, the
couple moved to Hartford, renting a home in the Nook Farm neighborhood from John
Hooker. They soon began construction on an eccentric and expensive mansion,
where they lived for two decades. In the billiard room of this house many of the
greatest books of Mark Twain were finished, among them "Tom Sawyer,"
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Roughing It," "Life
on the Mississippi," and "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's
Court." During his two decades in Hartford, Mark Twain enjoyed the company
of many good friends in his close-knit neighborhood, like William Gillette and
Charles Dudley Warner, as well as frequent visitors from around the country,
such as General William Tecumseh Sherman, explorer Henry Stanley, and author
Bret Harte. He became a well-known public figure, often making news in the
Hartford Courant ( Compton`s Encyclopedia ). Twain's years in Hartford were
perhaps among his happiest, for in addition to his literary successes it was
here that he, Livy, and their three daughters, Susy, Clara and Jean were all
together. Twain would eventually outlive everyone but Clara. Financial trouble
hit the Clemenses in the 1880s, particularly after Twain invested hundreds of
thousands of dollars in a mechanical typesetting device being developed by James
Paige. The typesetter was a failure, Twain's investment was lost, and in 1891
Twain and family left Hartford to live less expensively in Europe. Twain is
thought of today in many circles as a great humorist( Twain 25). This is, of
course, true. His wit is legendary. But his work is far too complex to
characterize only in that way. The writing is full of social commentary, and his
voice was controversial a...

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