Mark Twain

Through somewhat true fiction, Mark Twain became one of the most popular and most critically praised figures in literary history. .
             Upon asking the question what is great literature a reader is put forth in a labyrinth of the unknown. Literature is not only an artistic form of impression it is a way in which an author conveys their opinion, simply tells a story, or proves an idea with theory. What makes great literature a relative opinion is that readers discern who and what, they like in a number of ways. A reader can like a story simply because, that story affected them beyond the standpoint of the reader-author relationship, and began a correlation with the character themselves. A story can have a poetic prose, in which, the reader finds beauty, and systematically generates an opinion that beauty, uncovered through language is essentially, what makes the story great. A reader can assert that the simple techniques, in which, the author used were perfectly constructed: plot, theme, sequence, and etcetera. When a reader looks back on .
             literature and understands that an author carefully wrote a story analyzing these tools; a person begins to reveal that a certain author is great. .
             To understand the extraordinary talents and greatness' of Samuel Clemens you must first look at the lives of these writers and what inspired the authors to write. .
             Powers (1986) offered the notion that, place formed Mark Twain, as it has no other author. Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. There he received a public school education Microsoft Encarta (2002). It was in Hannibal that Clemens would make and live some of the extraordinary stories that would shape his.
             two most popular novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Clemens would share words about Hannibal, Missouri in a letter to the newspaper the Alta California: "Hannibal has had a hard time of it ever since I can recollect, and I was raised' there.