四：马克·吐温的语言艺术是卓越的。他只读过小学，他的语言是从群众中学 来的活的语言。他在民间语言的基础上加工锤炼，进一步创造了美国的文学 语言，开了一代文风。
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马克·吐温是19世纪美国现主义文学的主要奠基 人之一，他在现实主义小说语言风格方面为美国文 学的发展做出了卓越的贡献。用美国小说家和评论 家威廉·狄恩·豪威尔斯的话来说，他是“美国文学的 林肯”。马克·吐温是第一位用地道的美国口语写作 的美国作家，他的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》为美国 小说的语言带来意义深远的变化，奠定了美国文学 口语化风格的基础。他那清新幽默的文笔，毫无雕 琢的朴素语言开创了美国小说口语化的先河，对后 世作家产生巨大影响。
Short stories:
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship • Advice to Little Girls • he Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg • The War Prayer • Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heave • A Literary Nightmare • The Stolen White Elephant • 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
Mark Twain enjoyed immense public popularity. His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature". He was the first real American writer, and he was called “Lincoln of the literature”.
Mark Twain usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience. In his novel, one of the most successful writing styles is a combination of colloquial language and satire, it displays the major achievements of his art: writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.
Essays:
• How to Tell a Story and Other Essays • Christian Science • Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences; Mark Twain's satiric essay on Cooper's prose and
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Firstly, Mark Twain was a writer who had the characteristics of United States. Twain is a true American writer - born and grown in the United States. He has his own ideas, created through his eyes and unique language. He has no shadow of Europe and Feudal culture at all. He is a local, western writers of the Americas.
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Mark Twain wrote in his unpretentious, colloquial, and poetic style. He used vernacular language, dialect with spelling representing pronunciation. Part of this comes from his interest in humor. The directness of the language is a very influential point in Twain’s style. He combined humor and irony in his works ,which be filled with personal wit and funny words, he reflected the cruel society and selfish humanity by his keen perception. As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists,
布鲁克斯炮制了第三幅：一个唯唯ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ诺诺、卑贱得神经虚弱的庸人，天 才的英气好像隐约可见，但湮没在 商业化的浓艳俗色之中。
德沃托很不满意这种画法，来了个 第四幅：才气横溢，粗犷豪放的西 部性格呼之欲出。
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Novels:
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • The Prince and the Pauper • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court • The American Claimant • Tom Sawyer Abroad • Tom Sawyer, Detective • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc • A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany
As we know, Mark Twain was one of the greatest writers in America and in the world as well. He wrote many works which reflected America's social phenomenon. Especially the main characters and the plot reveal the truths at that time.
第一，马克·吐温是富于美国民族特色的作家。他是一个真正的美国作家—— 在美国土生土长，用自己的思想、自己的眼睛、自己的语言进行创作，在他 身上，欧洲的东西一点都看不见，封建文化最后一条碎片都不剩了。他是地 方的、西部的、又是美国大陆的作家。
Secondly, his novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," is a masterpiece in America. No matter the contents and ideas or the art style and language skills, this book is a great and classic novel.
Mark Twain
----- Mirror of America
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(1835Samuel Langhorne Clemens (18351910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
第二，他的代表作《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》，是一部美国名著，无论从社 会内容、思想意义，还是从艺术风格、语言技巧方面考虑，都是一部伟大 的小说，永远散发出“非常清新”的 “青春气息”
In addition , Mark Twain’s works had a lot of readers. His works aimed to bridge the ordinary readers to the elegant art, and as a power of art entered the serious literature.