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The Short Stories and Essays of Mark Twain | |||
The Short Stories and Essays of Mark Twain |
Over 600 vocabulary words and idioms with definitions, helpful for TOEFL students working to learn English as a second languageVocabulary words highlighted in bold on one side of the page, facing the text on the otherGrammatical information provided in context for easy understandingA diverse selection of works for variety, entertainment, and learning
作者简介 Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. He lives on in American letters as ""the Lincoln of our literature.""