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 or Samuel L. Clemens in real life, who lived in Hartford for several years, is the author of the classic American novel entitled 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 very elaborate and elegant house is located in an area called Nook Farm on Farmington Avenue where his neighbor, the author of the Uncle Tom’s cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, also lived.
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.
--> Experiencing having piloted steamboats on the Mississippi in his youth, his house has a large side porch-overlooking windows and balcony that remind people today of steamboats.
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.
--> Even though Mark Twain was the one of the three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven, he never really liked this newfangled gadget for there was practically no one to talk to.
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 that he even lost a fortune investing them and one of them was the elaborate Paige typesetter, which was, unfortunately, developed at the same time as the much simpler and less expensive 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 making him never feeling the same about the house again and so he soon left the house and Hartford, returning only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
