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Стивен Ликок. Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Table of Contents
I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH—MARK TWAIN AS TOM SAWYER—1835-1857
II. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. 1857-1861
III. ROUGHING IT IN THE WEST. 1861-1866
IV. INNOCENTS ABROAD AND AT HOME. 1867-1870
V. THE FLOOD-TIDE OF SUCCESS. 1870-1877
VI. MARK TWAIN AS A NATIONAL ASSET. 1877-1894
VII. DISASTER—1894-1900
VIII. THE EVENING OF A LONG DAY. 1900-1910
CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARK TWAIN [Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Hannibal was a slave town in a slave state, with the daily sight and use and custom of slavery as a part and parcel of its life accepted and unquestioned. This was before the time when the soil was torn and riven with the Kansas-Nebraska quarrel, and before yet the ground trembled with the approaching conflict. The aspect of slavery was as familiar to that generation as the aspect of slums and pauperism to the generation that followed it. And it passed with as little protest. It was part of life as people knew it, and it drew its sanction, or at least its apology, from the fact that it was there.
It was scarcely possible for an unschooled boy of a Missouri village to surpass in outlook the people among whom he lived. Mark Twain himself has told later in his autobiography, in a chapter written in the middle ’nineties, how ‘natural’ slavery had seemed fifty years before.
