马克吐温作品分析

Tom Sawyer
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Tom and his friends
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, his dead mother’s sister, Tom is a naughty boy who likes making tricks on others but also warm-hearted. He is tired of the monotony life in class. He dreams of having a fresh exciting life and exploring. By a chance Tom and his friend, Huck Finn, saw murder of Dr. Robinson by Injun Joe during a grave robbing attempt. Tom discloses Joe’s guilty and finds a box of gold which is buried by Joe and finally they become heroes in the town.
(1) His Novels
1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 亚瑟王朝的康涅狄克州的美国佬 1894 Pudd’nhead Wilson 傻瓜威尔逊
1916 The Mysterious Stranger 神秘的陌生人
(2) His Non-fictions
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
The novel draws on a European tour that Twain took in 1878. The book's narrator describes a walking tour of Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He mixes stories, jokes, legends, and character sketches, while criticizing European guidebooks and culture.
The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
The Prince and the Pauper (1882), set in England in the 1500's, describes the exchange of identities between the young Prince Edward and a poor boy named Tom Canty. This book pleased a refined circle of New England readers, but disappointed those who preferred the rugged energy of Twain's previous works.
1959 The Autobiography of Mark Twain 马克吐温自传
(3) His Stories
1867 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 卡拉维拉县驰名的跳蛙 1870 Running for Governor 竞选州长
The Innocents Abroad(1869)
Mark Twain’s account‚ adapted from his own newspaper reports‚ of his adventures traveling through Europe and the Middle East with other Americans. Throughout the book‚ Twain lampoons the meeting of these pilgrims from the New World‚ filled with a pretentious reverence and awe‚ with the hallowed culture of the Old World‚ often represented by Twain as not equaling its reputation.
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(1) His Novels
1873 The Gilded Age 镀金时代 1873 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆·索 亚历险记 1882 The Prince and the Pauper 王子与贫儿 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利·费恩历险记
His first story
1870 The ₤1,000,000 Bank Note 百万英镑
1870 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏了哈德莱堡的人
The Gilded Age
Twain's first novel. He wrote it with his friend and fellow Hartford writer, Charles Dudley Warner. The title refers to the decades following the Civil War. This book satirizes the selfishness and money-making schemes that were common during that time. The novel explored the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gave its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era. Twain’s dark view of the society became more self-evident in the works published later in his life.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, generally considered Twain's greatest work, was published in Great Britain in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. Twain had begun the book in 1876 as a sequel to Tom Sawyer. It describes the adventures of two runaways--the boy Huck Finn and the black slave Jim--and is told from the point of view of Huck himself.
Life on the Mississippi
This was Mark Twain’s seminal work on the river that gave birth to much of his most successful fiction. Entertaining‚ yet enlightening‚ Life on the Mississippi is a textbook on the history‚ life and lore of the Great River during the 19th century‚ but also a primer on the “science” of piloting the Mississippi during the heyday of the great steamboats that once traveled the greatest inland waterway of America.
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The￡ 1，000，000 Bank- Note
The￡ 1，000，000 Bank- Note
The novel talks about the adventure of a poor guy named Henry Adams who came from America, which happened in London. It was about a bet between two moneybags, they lent Henry a cheque of one million pounds which can’t be cashed, and they wanted to see how would Henry deal with that cheque in a month. To their surprise, Henry was not died of hunger, nor did he be arrested by the policeman until the deadline of one month. He became a millionaire instead, and won over the love from a beautiful lady!!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is about
the unusual life of a young boy living in a Mississippi River town during a summer in the 1840s.
1869 1880 1883
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The Innocents Abroad 傻子出国记 A Tramp Abroad 国外漫游
Life on the Mississippi 密西西比河上的生活
(2)His Non-fictions
1872 Roughing It 艰难岁月 1897 Following the Equator 赤道环游记 1906 What is Man? 什么是人？