2. Samuel L. Clemens was born on
November 30, 1835, in Missouri.
He wrote under the pen name
Mark Twain and was also a
riverboat pilot, journalist,
lecturer, entrepreneur and
inventor.
Twain died on April 21, 1910, in
Redding, Connecticut.
3. ▪ The sixth child of John and Jane Clemens.
▪ Was an apprentice printer and then a
printer in Hannibal and New York City.
▪ Hoping to find his fortune, he decided to
travel to South America.
▪ In February 1870, he improved his social
status by marrying to Olivia (Livy)
Langdon. They had 4 children: Langdon,
Olivia, Clara and Jane.
EARLY CAREER
4. WRITING CAREER
Even though some of his letters and
accounts of traveling had been published,
Twain actually launched his literary
career with the short story "The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County," published in 1865.
5. MARK TWAIN’S FAMOUS WORK
TITLE: The Innocents Abroad
PUBLICATION DATE: 1869
It is a travel book which humorously
chronicles what Twain called his "Great
Pleasure Excursion" on board the
chartered vessel Quaker City, through
Europe and the Holy Land, with a group
of American travelers.
6. TITLE: The Gilded Age
PUBLICATION DATE: 1872
It is about political corruption in post-
Civil War America in the era referred
to the Gilded Age. Although not one of
Twain's best-known works.
TITLE: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
PUBLICATION DATE: 1876
It is a 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.
7. TITLE: The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
PUBLICATION DATE: 1884
It was the first in major American
literature to be written throughout in
Vernacular English. It is told in the first
person by Huckleberry Finn. The book is
noted for its colorful description of people
and places along the Mississippi River.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an
often scathing satire on entrenched
attitudes, particularly racism.
8. 1. His real name was Samuel
Langhorne Clemens
INTERESTING FACTS OF MARK TWAIN
2. the adventures of Tom
Sawyer’s characters were real
9. 3. Huck Finn also has his own
novel, it was a sequence from
The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer.
4. In 1986 the Adventures of
Mark Twain feature film
appear on the big screen.
10. 6. He started his career when
his father died
´I came in with Halley's
Comet in 1835. It is
coming again next year
(1910), and I expect to
go out with it. It will
be the greatest
disappointment of my
life if I don't go out
with Halley's Comet.
The Almighty has said,
no doubt: "Now here
are these two
unaccountable freaks;
they came in together,
they must go out
together.’
11. 7. He mets his wife in 1867,
they married in 1870
8. Samuel came to serve as
inventor but unfortunately
their investments led him to
lose large amounts of money.
