MARK TWAIN

The author spent his childhood in a little town next to the river MIssissippi, and he left scholl when he was 12 yeras old. He was a typographer, a steamboat pilot, and a gold digger, before becoming the most famous American wrtier of his time.

childhood - infancia

typographer - tipógraf

steamboat - barco de vapor

gold digger - buscador d'or

WRITER:

In 1870 , Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. Olivia, a sweet and refined lady, became his literary adviser. She controlled the impulsive style of her husband's writing, eliminating from his text the more "direct" expressions which came from his random and intense life full of jokes, parties and fights. Time passed, and more books appeared: A Hard Life, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The adventure of Huckleberry Finn..By then everybody knew Mark Twain. But little by little, the America described in his novels disappeared, to give was to a different country, rich, moralistic and "civilized".
When Mark Twain died in 1910 the America of the pioneers and the mythical land of freedom called " the frontier" had disappeared forever.

sweet - dolç

adviser - conseller

fights - lluita

give way - donar pas

mythical - mític

freedom - llibertat