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马克·吐温（Mark Twain,1835年11月30日－1910年4月21日）His major works and styles:原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门（Samuel Langhorne Clemens) ，美国的幽默大师、小说家、作家，也是著名演说家，19世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出代表，美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人，世界著名的短篇小说大师。
他经历了美国从“自由”资本主义到帝国主义的发展过程，其思想和创作也表现为从轻快调笑到辛辣讽刺再到悲观厌世的发展阶段。
写作风格熔幽默与讽刺一体，既富于独特的个人机智与妙语，又不乏深刻的社会洞察与剖析。
早期创作，如短篇小说《竟选州长》（1870）、《哥尔斯密的朋友再度出洋》（1870）等，以幽默、诙谐的笔法嘲笑美国“民主选举”的荒谬和“民主天堂”的本质。
中期作品，如长篇小说《镀金时代》（1874，与华纳合写）、代表作长篇小说《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》（1886）及《傻瓜威尔逊》（1893）等，则以深沉、辛辣的笔调讽刺和揭露像瘟疫般盛行于美国的投机、拜金狂热，及暗无天日的社会现实与惨无人道的种族歧视。
19世纪末，随着美国进入帝国主义发展阶段，马克·吐温一些游记、杂文、政论，如《赤道环行记》（1897）、中篇小说《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》（1900）、《神秘来客》（1916）等的批判揭露意义也逐渐减弱，而绝望神秘情绪则有所伸长。
马克·吐温被誉为“美国文学中的林肯”。
他的主要作品已大多有中文译本。
His life:Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family. He was brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After his father's death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer and wrote for his brother's newspaper. He later worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot.The Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic and Clemens moved to Virginia City, where he edited the Territorial Enterprise. On February 3, 1863, 'Mark Twain' was born when Clemens signed a humorous travel account with that pseudonym.In 1864 Twain left for California, and worked in San Francisco as a reporter. He visited Hawaii as a correspondent for The Sacramento Union, publishing letters on his trip and giving lectures. He set out on a world tour, traveling in France and Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad, which gained him wide popularity, and poked fun at both American and European prejudices and manners.The success as a writer gave Twain enough financial security to marry Olivia Langdon in 1870.They moved next year to Hartford. Twain continued to lecture in the United States and England. Between 1876 and 1884 he published several masterpieces, Tom Sawyer (1881) and The Prince And The Pauper (1881). Life On The Mississippi appeared in 1883 andHuckleberry Finn in 1884.In the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in the failure of his own publishing firm. To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour, during which one of his daughters died. Twain toured New Zealand, Australia, India, andSouth Africa. He wrote such books as The Tragedy Of Pudd'head Wilson (1884), Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and the travel book Following The Equator (1897). During his long writing career, Twain also produced a considerable number of essays.The death of his wife and his second daughter darkened the author's later years, which is seen in his posthumously published autobiography (1924). Twain died on April 21, 1910.获奖代表作：《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》哈克贝利是一个聪明、善良、勇敢的白人少年。
英语专业本科学期论文题目The Literature Features of Mark Twain's Works学院名称指导教师职称讲师班级学号学生姓名2011 年 4月 28日AbstractMark Twain is a real critics of America，his literature most main feature is humorous、satire，and many works of his literary are full of fantasy hero。
Each of his literature has its unique implication，many of these literature are full of meaning of critical social phenomenon。
He experience the process of United States from “free” capitalism to imperialism of development。
Its ideas and creative also manifests burning satire，then it is becoming pessimism。
In every literature of Mark Twain is almost full of humorous and satire，So in his literary, the main three feature is humorous、satire、fantasy。
The paper will conduct its analysis and descriptions around this three aspects。
To combine a literature and the culture background，only by this can we understand the intonation。
