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Topic 54. The humour in Mark Twain’s works & The Cosmopolitan elements…

- - - - Mark Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri
      - Typical Western hoax (an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real)
      - Twain’s works are filled with stories about how ordinary people trick experts or how the weak succeeded in hoaxing the strong
      - In 1865, he became famous due to his short story: The Celebrated Jumping Frog - based on the stories of the Californian mining camps
      - WORKS
        
        The Innocents Abroad, Roughing it, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court, The Mysterious Stranger
- - - - He was a realist. An observer of the mind rather than a recorder of the times.
      - The characters of his novels rarely do anything. Things happen to them, but not as a result of their own actions.
      - WORKS: The American (1877), The European (1878), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The turn of the Screw (1898), The beast in the jungle (1903), What Maisie knows (1897), The wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), The Golden bowl (1904).