ns favorite. So cherished and
dear to him was she that she was likened to Joan of Arc, which he released
in 1896, quite consequently the in which Susy died.
Prior to his work on Joan of Arc' Clemens wrote The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn' (1884) and A Tramp Abroad' (1880) both these were
lighter than some of his actually more serious works on poverty.
The beautifully depicted Prince and the Pauper' (1881) was one that
exposed the Clemens' thought over social inequalities. Perhaps he had no
other way of exposing the manner in which the poor man was treated if he
Later, after his wife's death, Clemens became even more depressed and
began to isolate himself. The bitterness he held within for humanity was
unleashed in his writings from then on. He could no longer tolerate the
pain, for he also had to lose his other children as well, one of whom
drowned in a bathtub during a seizure.
Though Clemens lost nearly all his family, he still attempted to hang
onto the beautiful memories he had of them. Some of his work reflected the
love he had for his favorite Susy, while he tried to repl
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