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Published: 23.06.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Mark Twain and his style of writing', 1.
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Twain was born in 11/30/1835 to John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, in the frontier hamlet of Florida, Missouri. There was a presence of Halley's Comet in the sky when he is born. Did it symbolised that Twain would outshine many and become a remarkable and respected man?
In 1864, Twain left for california and worked in Sans Francisco as a reporter. He was married in 1870 to Olivia Langdon.
Life is not a bed of roses. In the 1890s,Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in the downhill of his own publishing firm. To recover from the bankrupt, he started a world le…

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