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Chapter 1 Mark Twain‘s impact on literature
1.1 Twain as a writer of short stories
Mark Twain, one of the most famous and influential American writers, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on November 30, 1835 and died April 21, 1910. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he eventually adopted his famous pseudonym in 1863. Shortly after his father‘s death in 1847, when Clemens was twelve, his father passed away. After his father death, he applied for an apprenticeship at the localprinting shop. While working in the printing shop, Twain learned the skills required to be a printer and developed an aptitude for witty short essays and responses. Mark Twain was enthralled by his opportunity to develop his skills as a printer, and later he realized that he had a unique talent for writing. By working as an apprentice printer, he helped pay for family expenses and by age sixteen he began writing humorous articles and newspaper sketches, which could have been is his reason for becoming an author.
Mark Twain is more famously known for his novels. When people usually speak of him, the first works of his that come to mind are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ―AllmodernAmericanliteraturecomesfromonebookbyMarkTwaincalledHuckleberryFinn.‖²
Of course, Twain wrote a many novels, but these are the two he is most known for. He also wrote many short stories. Short stories are known as somewhat of a dying art, but they are far from dead. The short story is a form a literature taken on by many writers past and present.
As Mark Twain explains in his essay ―How to Tell a Story‖, the art of the humorous tale relies more on how a story is told discussing its manner rather matter. This distinction is clear nowhere than in the Twain stories that depend heavily on mystery and detection, in which these literary forms meet Twain's particular use of southwestern humor and the oral tradition. In ―A Ghost Story,‖ for example, particularly the clumsy ghost of a petrified man, Cardiff Giant, learnt from the narrator that he had been mistakenly haunting a plaster cast of himself in New York display. Instead he should have been petrifying the figure on exhibit in Albany .
Twain wrote many short stories. They were written from the late 1860s to the early 1900s. Some of the stories were even published after his death. Twain was writer of many things from novels and short stories to essay and non-fiction. There wasn't anything that he could not write, and what he chose to write he wrote well.
The first short story he published was The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County. It was published in the Saturday Press under a different name.
During the 1860, Twain published two more short stores; General Washington's Negro Body-Servant and My Late Senatorial Secretaryship were both published in 1868.
In the 1870s, Mark Twain published many short stories. He published Some
Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls, A Murder, a Mystery, and a
Marriage, The Invalid's Story, and The Great Revolution in Pitcairn from 1875 to
1879. He published 4 stories in the 1880s: 1601: Conversation, as it was by the
Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors, The Stolen White Elephant, Luck, and Those Extraordinary Twins. Twain had a knack for short story writing the same way he did for novel writing. He was a talented writer in all areas.
In the 1900s, he was able to publish 5 more short stories before he passed away. He published The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, A Dog's Tale, Extracts from Adam's Diary, The War Prayer, Eve's Diary, and Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Even though he passed away in 1910, two of his stories were still published after his death: My Platonic Sweetheart and The Private Life of Adam and Eve.