目录
Preface
Note on referencing
1 Mark Twains life
The early life
River boating, the Civil War, the West
Early success, marriage, the Hartford years
Expatriation, financial loss, family tragedy
The final years
2 Contexts
Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mark Twain
3 Works
Twains humour
Travel and travel writing: Innocents Abroad,
A Tramp Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the
Mississippi
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee and Puddnhead Wilson
4 Critical reception and the late works
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index