0;a truly fascinating city to live in, stately and handsome at a fair distance, but close at hand one notes that the architecture is mostly old-fashioned, many streets are made up of decaying, smokegrimed, wooden houses, and the brown sandhills towards the outskirts obtrude themselves too prominently”. The Call paid him twenty-five dollars a week and agreed to give him no night work. He got up at ten and quit at five or six (Meltger 43). He also signed with the Alta California in 1866 which was the West’s most prominent paper.As he approached forty, he had come to maturity in writing the book Innocents Abroad. To many readers this book remains third best behind Life on the Mississippi and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His invention of stories did not come easily to him (American Writers 198). Mark Twain published in full in 1883 Life on the Mississippi, which is an autobiographical account that gives a vivid picture of his days a Mississippi River pilot before the Civil War. “The rugged apprenticeship of the river pilot, the excitement on the river leaves, the steamboat races, the gambling on board the ships, and wealth of human incident make this a classic account of river life”.Another book is Huckleberry Finn. It was published in 1884. This book is generally considered his masterpiece and one of the masterpieces of American literature. The story is told in the vivid view of Huck. He is a true child of nature that deals with his daring act of helping him, who is a runaway slave, to escape. In a frontier voyage, Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi on a raft enjoying peace, freedom, and mutual respect that is a sharp contrast to the meanness of society in the river towns where they stop. “Twain uses the irony of Huck’s innocent view of life to criticize the barbarity of sivilization.”In conclusion, Mark Twain has left us with an unbelievable legacy. He stillremains as one ...
