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馬克吐溫的家
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房子有感情及靈魂嗎？如果別人認為這房子很奇怪，人仍會熱愛他的房子嗎？
1871年，作家馬克吐溫搬到康乃狄克州的哈特福特，以便更靠近他的出版社。他在奴克農場(Nook
Farm)租了一棟住家，這個農場位於哈特福特的西部邊緣，是一個繁榮的文學社區；1873年時，真名為克裡門斯(Samuel
Langhorne Clemens)的吐溫，和他的家人在奴克農場的法明頓大道上買了一塊地，還僱用了一位紐約市的建築師來設計房子。
房子建造期間，當地的報紙形容它是「即使不是全國，也是本州有史以來，外觀最奇特的住屋」。
吐溫曾說，這棟房子「擁有心及靈魂.
…它代表了我們，我們也深受它的信任，住在它的幽雅及寧靜的祝福裡；每當我們外出返家時，它總是給人面色一亮的感覺， 向我們表達它最的真摯的歡迎一般，每每令踏入家門的我們倍感感動！
自1874年至1891年間，吐溫住在這棟屋內並在此工作。在這段時間內，他完成了湯姆歷險記(The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer)、哈克歷險記(The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)及亞瑟王朝廷上的康乃狄克州洋基佬(A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)；您認為這棟獨特的房子，對他的寫作有帶來任何影響嗎？
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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