Innocents Abroad (1869) is the account of his journey aboard a vessel called Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land. Much of Twain’s writings also concentrate on his wide travels. Regarded as one of the most influential works that has influenced generations of American writers, it throws light on the abdominal practice of slavery, and a young boy’s lone effort to do right. Incidentally, Google’s doodle commemorating Twain’s birth anniversary takes off from one of the episodes in the book, where Sawyer tricks a friend into painting the fence, a chore he was assigned by his aunt.Īdventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) concentrate on Huck’s tramp-like life and his efforts to liberate Jim from slavery (remember those were pre-abolition days). Sawyer’s experiences draws on Twain’s life, and his escapades with friend Huck Finn and his first taste of love are staple reading in high schools around the world.
Twains most famous work is of course The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). What is less familiar is that his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and that he adopted his pen name from a practice often deployed by boats men on the Missouri river, called ‘marking the twain’. Many are familiar with his immortal creations-Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn-those irreverent teenagers whose adventures tell the story of every adolescent, in any corner of the world. Today is the 176th birth anniversary of Mark Twain, the man often referred to as ‘the father of American literature’.
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