Author: Sherry Helms “Don’t part with your illusions. When they
are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”-
Mark Twain. Mark Twain, the great American novelist and
humorist, was named “The Father of American Literature” by
William Faulkner. He gained popularity mostly for his two best
novels- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn- that was later called “The Great American
Novel”. He has been one of the greatest humorists of American
Literature. His novels were instances of beautiful combinations
of fiction, realism, social criticism, satire, humor and also
American cultural history. His novels were at some parts
autobiographical too. Through the course of his writing journey,
not only Twain developed as a human being but his views and
social and political outlooks also got to be developed from time
to time. From being an ardent imperialist and “red- hot
imperialist”, he got completely transformed to anti- imperialism
and that also started reflecting in his works