马克吐温的故事(要英文的)

我记得好像北京外国语大学出版社出的大学英语第1，还是第二册里面的倒数第几课好像有专门介绍他的故事。大型书店都有卖的，你可以去翻翻。

马克吐温Mark Twain

Mark Twain (l835～1910)

Write without pay until someone offers it. If no one does so within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended.

Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. His father was a storekeeper and died in 1847. His early occupations included apprenticeship to a printer, writing for his brother's newspaper and, just as importantly in retrospect, piloting ships on the Mississippi (where, incidentally, he was actively discouraged from reading). It was this latter job that provided material for his most famous books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and gave him his working name. Mark twain is a naval term meaning two fathoms deep.

In fact, Twain published his early works under the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass but he settled