Joining sentences through compression, subordination and coordination
1. The author of the classic American novel Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens, lived in Hartford for several years.
2. Mark Twain, whose very elegant and elaborate house was in an area called Nook Farm on Farmington Avenue, was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3.In his youth, Mark Twain piloted steamboats in Mississipi and his home had windows and a balcony that overlooked a large side porch that today, people say reminded them of a steamboat.
4. Mark Twain, one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in New Haven, never really liked this newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.
5. Mark Twain who loved industrial inventions and lost a fortune investing in them invested on an elaborate Paige typesetter which, unfortunately for him, was developed at the same time as the Linotype, a much simpler and less expensive machine.
6. Mark Twain never felt the same about his house and Hartford and soon left it after his beloved daughter, Susie, died of spinal meningitis in their home and returned only once for his friend, Charles Dudley Warner's funeral.
