... write about America and the muddy river where he grew up. Mark Twain answered his own question of, "what to do next- with his life when he stared writing Innocents Abroad (1869). This was Twain's first published narrative. The story was about his travels of the world on an expedition that would cover all seven continents He began this journey just ... an entirely different way from all others, quite unworthy of the company of the best- Burns (2001). Twain's published novels are as follows: The Innocents Abroad, 1869; Roughing It, 1872; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876; A Tramp Abroad,...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , nowhere socially recognizable."" (Gillman, p. 95) Even when viewing Twain through the nineteenth century lens, it is necessary to call him on his attitudes concerning racial superiority and inferiority. From Innocents Abroad to Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain's on-going minstrel show morphs into the increasingly vicious and threatening "coon- show. While his social commentary holds white society up to a harsh light, it ... ...

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... as a printer and 1856 as a steamboat officer. After brief service in the Civil War he started writing as a journalist and later as an author. His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson- (1894) was one of his last novels. After this novel was published Twain had to ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School