Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters. It has the marks of greatness in it—style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy. A figure larger than life with his massive talent and eruptive temperament, Twain crafted novels and short stories that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story with the same flair he brought to his fiction. 《马克·吐温自传》讲述了马克·吐温——世界著名短篇小说大师，美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人——经历了美国从"自由"资本主义到帝国主义的转变，他的思想和作品风格也呈现出从轻快调笑，到辛辣讽刺，再到悲观厌世的改变。马克·吐温不受欧洲传统的束缚，以新大陆人的眼光看待事物，提倡并开辟了"运用口语进行创作"的独特文体，他因此被誉为"美国文学史上的林肯"，为欧美文学的发展做出了巨大的贡献。