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“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1877)
brought wide popularity to the writer. 
All the characters are portrayed with great mastery. He didn’t intend to write it pure for children, 
though the book contains much of his childhood. 
The stagnant atmosphere of the provincial town in the South is depicted in the novel. In 1867 he 
received an offer from the newspaper to visit Europe. He was in the Crimea. It resulted in that he 
wrote “A Tramp Abroad”, “Our Innocents Abroad”, (1880). He was still optimistic. He glorified 
the American mode of life. He married when he came back from Europe a daughter of a rich 
coalminer. By the end of his life he was very lonely but his spirit was unbroken.
In 1884 he published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. E. Hemingway wrote “All modern 
American literature comes from one book by MarkTwain called “Huckleberry Finn”. Elements 
of social criticism grew stronger in his writings. He wrote articles, pamphlets. “We are 
Americanizing Europe”, “The United States of Lynchdom”, “Municipal corruption”. 
In 1905 revolution broke in Russia and M. Twain hailed the revolution. He exposes the 
aggressive policy of the American Government. In many of his stories and pamphlets he is a just 
and severe critic of capitalist America. He shows the power of gold that rules the country, the 
hypocrisy and ignorance of the ruling classes and exposes the social injustice of American 
“democracy”.
He also wrote two historical stories “The Prince and the Pauper” (1881) and “A Connecticut 
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (1889). These two satires are the critic of the feudal forms of 
life and his own country.
Many years have passed since M. Twain’s death but even now the American imperialists fear his 
biting satire. The American critics try to represent merely as a humorist and no more, while he 
was also a realist – the author of bitterly critical pages, revealing a good deal of the truth about 
American “democracy”.