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1、Lesson9MarkTwain---MirrorofAmericabyNoelGrove制作人：赵霞MarkTwain(1835-1910)BackgroundInformationMarkTwainIntroductionofhismajorworksTheGildedAgeandTheGoldRushAbouttheauthorSamuelLanghorneClemens(November30,1835–April21,1910),betterknownbythepennameMarkTwain,wasanAmericanhumori
2、st,satirist,writer,andlecturer.TwainismostnotedforhisnovelsAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnandTheAdventuresofTomSawyer.ClemenswasawellknownauthorintheUnitedStates,apopularcomedianandmonologist,andfriendtopresidents,artists,leadingindustrialists,andEuropeanroyalty.MarkTwain'sAdv
3、enturesofHuckleberryFinnhasbeencalledaGreatAmericanNovel. Heenjoyedimmensepublicpopularityandhiskeenwitandincisivesatireearnedhimpraisefrombothcriticsandpeers.AmericanauthorWilliamFaulknercalledTwain"thefatherofAmericanliterature.”IntroductionofhismajorworksMarkTwainwroten
4、ovelsprincipally,healsowroteshortstories,speeches,andnon-fictionsTheGildedAge(1873),TheAdventuresofTomSawyer(1876),ThePrinceandthePauper(1881),AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn(1884),AConnecticutYankeeinKingArthur'sCourt(1889)TheTragedyofPudd'nheadWilson(1894)Healsowrotesomeauto
5、biographicalworks,includingTheInnocentsAbroad(1869),ATrampAbroad(1880),LifeontheMississippi(1883),MarkTwain'sAutobiography.TheGildedAgeandTheGoldRushTheGildedAge(1873),whichfollowedRoughingIt,wasTwain'sfirstnovel.HewroteitwithhisfriendandfellowHartfordwriter,CharlesDudleyW
6、arner.ThetitlereferstothedecadesfollowingtheCivilWar.Thisbooksatirizestheselfishnessandmoney-makingschemesthatwerecommonduringthattime."Whatisthechiefendofman?--togetrich.Inwhatway?--dishonestlyifwecan;honestlyifwemust."--MarkTwain-1871ThesagaofAmericanwealthcreation,bothf
7、orthenationandforitsenterprisingcapitalists,reacheditspeakduringtheGildedAge,aperiodroughlydelimitedbytheendofCivilWarandthebeginningofWorldWarI.InAmerica,thisperiodwascharacterizedbyseeminglyboundlesseconomicexpansionandtheemergenceofanewnation,whichhadcompletedtheconques
8、tofitsvastWesternterritoriesandtakentheleadamongothernations,inindustryandtrade.Duringthe
