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马克吐温的家
地方性遗产
房子有感情及灵魂吗？如果别人认为这房子很奇怪，人仍会热爱他的房子吗？
1871年，作家马克吐温搬到康乃狄克州的哈特福特，以便更靠近他的出版社。他在奴克农场(Nook
Farm)租了一栋住家，这个农场位于哈特福特的西部边缘，是一个繁荣的文学社区；1873年时，真名为克里门斯(Samuel
Langhorne Clemens)的吐温，和他的家人在奴克农场的法明顿大道上买了一块地，还雇用了一位纽约市的建筑师来设计房子。
房子建造期间，当地的报纸形容它是「即使不是全国，也是本州有史以来，外观最奇特的住屋」。
吐温曾说，这栋房子「拥有心及灵魂.
…它代表了我们，我们也深受它的信任，住在它的幽雅及宁静的祝福里；每当我们外出返家时，它总是给人面色一亮的感受， 向我们表达它最的真挚的欢迎一般，每每令踏入家门的我们倍感感动！
自1874年至1891年间，吐温住在这栋屋内并在此工作。在这段时间内，他完成了汤姆历险记(The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer)、哈克历险记(The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)及亚瑟王朝廷上的康乃狄克州洋基佬(A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)；您认为这栋独特的房子，对他的写作有带来任何影响吗？
Can a house have a heart and soul? Can people love their house even if others think it's odd?
In 1871, writer Mark Twain moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to be closer to his publisher. He rented a home in Nook Farm, a thriving literary community at the western edge of Hartford. In 1873, Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and his family purchased land on Farmington Avenue in Nook farm and hired a New York City architect to design a house.
As the house was being built, the local newspaper noted that "it is one of the oddest looking buildings in the state ever designed for a dwelling, if not in the whole country."
Twain once said that the house "had a heart, and a soul. ... It was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never came from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome -- and we could not enter unmoved."
Twain lived and worked in the house from 1874 to 1891. During this time he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Do you think his unique house influenced his writing?
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