Whatever its faults, Twain's Huckleberry Finn is a classic. Variously interpreted, it is often thought to suggest more than it reveals, speaking of what man has done to confuse himself about his right relation to nature. It can also be thought of as a treatment of man's failures in dealing with his fellows and of the corruption that man's only escape is in flight, perhaps even from himself.
Yet it is also an apparently artless story of adventure and escape so simply and directly told that novelist Ernest Hemingway c. After a series of unsuccessful business ventures in Europe, Twain returned to the United States in His writings grew increasingly bitter, especially after his wife's death in Eve's Diary , written partly in memory of his wife, showed a man saved from bungling only through the influence of a good woman.
In Twain began to dictate his autobiography to Albert B. Paine, recording scattered memories without any particular order. Portions from it were published in periodicals later that year.
With the income from the excerpts of his autobiography, he built a large house in Redding, Connecticut, which he named Stormfield. There, after several trips to Bermuda to improve his declining health, he died on April 21, Kaplan, Justin.
Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, Krauth, Leland. Proper Mark Twain. Athens: University of Georgia Press, Paine, Albert Bigelow. A growing port city that lay along the banks of the Mississippi, Hannibal was a frequent stop for steam boats arriving by both day and night from St. Louis and New Orleans. Samuel's father was a judge, and he built a two-story frame house at Hill Street in As a youngster, Samuel was kept indoors because of poor health.
However, by age nine, he seemed to recover from his ailments and joined the rest of the town's children outside. He then attended a private school in Hannibal. Within the Sampson Collection were a number of rare editions and foreign translations of Mark Twain novels.
In , Clemens visited the University of Missouri, Columbia, and donated a twenty-two-volume edition of his collected works to the Society. During the next two decades, the collection continued to grow slowly through purchases and gifts. Then, in , the Society purchased the fine Mark Twain library of books, over 1, cartoons, and clippings collected by Purd B.
Wright of Kansas City. In , after the death of George A. The Society continued to add to the collection through gifts and purchases, and by the collection had grown to volumes and also contained scrapbooks and additional cartoons.
New items are still added to the collection, and by it had grown to over 1, volumes. Despite his great literary successes, Samuel Clemens was unlucky in business. He had a strong, recurrent desire to invest in products and projects that often failed, such as the Paige typesetter, an automatic typesetting machine. In fact, Clemens did much of his writing and lecturing to pay off his debts. Then in , Clemens suffered the first of a series of devastating personal losses.
During the next decade, Clemens would suffer the loss of his wife, Livy, in and his second daughter, Jean, in Samuel Clemens returned to the United States in He was greeted by a supportive public that admired his work. In he traveled to Missouri for the last time to accept an honorary degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
While in his home state, Clemens also visited St. Louis and returned to Hannibal. There he took a short trip on the Mississippi River with his old friend and instructor Horace Bixby. The writings of Mark Twain endure on bookshelves and in the hearts and minds of readers around the world. In his sketches, articles, stories, and novels, he captured the flavor and spirit of America during the late nineteenth century.
More importantly, he wrote eloquently about universal themes that affect people of all times. His wit, combined with a deep sympathy for innocent and well-meaning people, came from his humble origins in Missouri. Clemens died at Stormfield on April 21, , at the age of His pen name lives on in his books, in an annual book award, and in the vast national forest in Missouri that is named in his honor. He moved into it in The following is a selected list of books, articles, and manuscripts about Mark Twain in the research centers of The State Historical Society of Missouri.
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