Mark Twain Analysis

Samuel Langhorne Clemens has renamed himself as Mark Twain. It has been assumed that in his village on the riverboat people two fathoms was calculated by calling "mark twain". It means the line or the distance can be measured by marking with the help of a twain thread. Few of his critics assume that the name was conferred on him by the bartender from whom he used to buy two drinks with the statement “mark twain”. But no one knows the real meaning or the origin of his name. Samuel Lang home Clemens has not only used the name Mark Twain but also has written under the pen name "Sieur Louis de Conte". Twain himself wrote: “The old gentleman [Captain Isaiah Sellers] was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot down brief paragraphs of

His short term work with the local armed force is reflected in the short story “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed” in the year 1885. He went off to the west in 1861 from the armed forces with Orion who was the Governor of Nevada. His stay at Nevada forms the foundation for his second work of Art Roughing It. His semi-autobiographical fiction Roughing It speaks about Mark twain’s adventures. Mark Twain’s firsthand knowledge about newspaper reporter and writer has motivated him to write Roughing it. Gary L.Pullman, the reviwer of Mark Twain’s book Roughing It

Of course, as is true of any of the books Twain wrote, "Roughing It" is chock full of social commentary and hilarious observations about what he refers to elsewhere as "the only animal that blushes--or needs to."

“Roughing It Book Review Summary”. http://allreaders.com/book-review-summary/roughing-it-14463

Mark Twain tasted his first literary accomplishment in 1865 after submitting one of his short stories to be published by Artemus Ward in his collection. His story entitled “Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog” which was later renamed as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was reprinted all over America and the editor of Atlantic Monthly James Russell Lowell remarked the story as, "the finest piece of humorous literature yet produced in America."

“Mark Twain and American Humour”