New York: The 176th birthday of Mark Twain, the 19th Century writer, has been celebrated with a beautiful Google Doodle mural, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Born on 30 November 1835 in the town of Florida, Missouri, Twain penned Tom Sawyer in 1876 and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1885. The two novels are his most famous works and count among America’s best-loved tales.
In the book, Tom is set to whitewashing a fence as a punishment by his aunt, but gets out of it by roping in a bunch of other boys to finish the job. The Doodle shows them hard at work painting the fence with the Google logo.
The picture appears to show Tom and his friend Ben at various stages of the paintwork job, with the ‘e’ and half the ‘l’ of “Google” subjected to their brush.
Mark Twain, who’s real name was Samuel Clemens, was beloved for his stories about the American way of life, told through child heroes Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Other literary subjects who have received the Google doodle treatment include HG Wells, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Agatha Christie, Jorge Luis Borges and Stanislaw Lem.
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