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IN THE LIBRARY
Nick is a schoolboy. He likes reading books, and he often goes to the school library. There are many interesting books in it. There are novels, poems, plays, picture books and newspapers there. Nick likes to read books about travelling and adventures most of all. Yesterday he took a very interesting book. Mark Twain wrote it. The book is about the adventures of a boy. His name is Tom. He doesn't like going to school. He likes doing different tricks. Do you know who Mark Twain was? He was a famous American writer. He wrote such famous novels as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Do you know that Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens? He was born in a small village not far from the little town of Hannibal on the Mississippi River. His father died when Sam was twelve years old, and the boy worked to help the family. He worked at the printer's shop. All his life Twain liked to read. Later he became a pilot of a steamship on the Mississippi. Much later he became a journalist, and then a famous writer all over the world.