●Preface
●Note on referencing
●1 Mark Twain's life
● The early life
● River boating, the Civil War, the West
● Early success, marriage, the Hartford years
● Expatriation, financial loss, family tragedy
● The final years
●2 Contexts
● Samuel Langhorne Clemens and 'Mark Twain'
●3 Works
● Twain's humour
● Travel and travel writing: Innocents Abroad,
● A Tramp Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the
● Mississippi
● Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
● A Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson
●4 Critical reception and the late works
●Notes
●Guide to further reading
●部分目錄