1.
Mark Twain is the author of Huckleberry Finn.
Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel.
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel L. Clemens.
He lived in Hartford for several years.
-Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens, lived in Hartford for several years and is the author of the classic American novel, Huckleberry Finn.
2.
Mark Twain's house was very elaborate and elegant.
It was on Farmington Avenue.
It was in an area called Nook Farm.
He was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mark Twain's elaborate and elegant house was on Farmington Avenue in Nook Farm and was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3.
Mark Twain's home has a large side porch.
Windows and a balcony overlook the porch.
Today, people say the windows and balcony remind them of a steamboat.
In his youth, Twain piloted steamboats on the Mississippi.
-Windows and a balcony overlook the large side porch of Mark Twain's home and today, people say remind them of a steamboat in which Twain piloted many on the Mississippi in his youth.
4.
Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone.
The telephone was first used commercially in nearby New Haven.
There was practically no one to talk to.
Mark Twain never really liked this newfangled gadget.
-Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven, but there was practically no one to talk to and he never really liked this newfangled gadget.
5.
Mark Twain loved industrial inventions.
He lost a fortune investing in them.
One of these inventions was the elaborate Paige typesetter.
Unfortunately for Twain, this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype.
The Linotype machine was much simpler and less expensive.
-Mark Twain loved industrial inventions but lost a fortune investing in such things like the Paige typesetter, which was developed at the same time as the much simpler and less expensive machine known as the Linotype.
6.
Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died in the Hartford home.
She died of spinal meningitis.
Twain never felt the same about the house again.
He soon left the house and Hartford.
He returned only once.
He came back for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
-Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home, and he never felt the same about the house again, returning only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
