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Eve's Diary illustrated Mark Twain - This story puts a new twist on a very old story: the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible. In the Bible story, Eve, the first woman, is created as a partner for Adam, the first man. When she tempts Adam into eating forbidden fruit, they are thrown out of the garden of Eden. Twain's story, however, is from Eve's point of view. It paints a picture of her as fully independent with likes, dislikes, joys, and sorrows....
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Mark Twain's legendary insight and wit shine throughout this new selection of his writings, the first to focus on California. As a young man, the celebrated author of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and other classics spent the mid-1860s in California. In this collection of essays, newspaper articles, fiction, speeches, and letters, Twain presents his notoriously unconventional views on a state booming in the wake of the gold rush. His wry humor and...
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This volume gathers eight of Mark Twain's most-loved humorous stories and features "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"-the career-making story of a visit by an inveterate gambler to an old mining camp in California's Gold Country. The undisputed master of the tall tale, Twain's legendary deadpan delivery and his ability to pile on and compound the hilarity make his stories as uproarious as they are singular. His humor also reveals a...
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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was, made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things, which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody, but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly-Tom's Aunt Polly, she is, and Mary and the Widow Douglas...
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Six volumes in one, Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. A prolificacy of letters, reflecting Twain's role as 'a mighty national menace to sham'. Like all life's, Twain's was a rich evolution of character and concerns as reflected in this collection of his personal correspondence. Throughout, he maintains a wonderful sense of humour and phrasing that is compelling to his readers. His younger letters are playful whereas his older ones show a more tempered...
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Un pequeño mendigo que, para esconder sus penurias, se adentra en los cuentos de príncipes y princesas. Una tarde, decide caminar hacia el palacio para poder hacer realidad su único deseo: ver a un príncipe de verdad. Pero un inesperado acto de bondad, realizado por un príncipe, daría vuelco no sólo a la vida del pequeño mendigo, sino también la del mismo príncipe. Ambientado en 1547, Mark Twain, a pesar de ser un escritor estadounidense,...
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A collection of classic books which have been banned at some point in time: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain; The Jungle, Upton Sinclair; The Call of the Wild, Jack London; Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence; Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe; The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine; Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, John Cleland; The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx; On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau; Alice's...
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Mark Twain's novels are filled with humor, wit, and astounding insight into the world of the 19th-century United States. Written entirely in the vernacular, these classic satirical tales exposed the bigotry and hypocrisy of American life. The cheerful Tom Sawyer, the good-natured Huck Finn, the independent Hank Morgan, and the well-meaning Tom Canty are quintessential Twain characters, full of life, verve, and a sense of justice they often felt was...
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Following the Equator is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into the failed Paige Compositor. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2,975,000 in 2020) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895 at age 60, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in English.
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In this short 1904 work, from late in his career, Mark Twain imagines how Adam was introduced to Eve. "This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this, I am not used to company..." Twain also published a companion volume, Eve's Diary.
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The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is an 1893 collection of short stories by American writer Mark Twain. The collection was published in 1893, in a disastrous decade for the United States, a time marked by doubt and waning optimism, rapid immigration, labor problems, and the rise of political violence and social protest. It was also a difficult time for Twain personally, as he was forced into bankruptcy and devastated by the death of...
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Puddn'head Wilson has in recent years been reassessed as one of Mark Twain's very best, most daring and innovative works. Roxanne who is certainly one of Twain's most colourful characters, is a nearly-white slave; she gives birth to a son whose father is a Virginian gentleman and she also brings up Tom, the son of Percy Driscoll a prosperous slave owner. The two boys are the same age and extremely similar in appearance. Child swapping, cross-dressing,...
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Famed author's plain-spoken words - recorded as character sketches, essays, diary entries, letters and more - recall his boisterous boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, life as a riverboat pilot, as a young adult in rough Nevada mining towns, years spent as an author, plus somber passages noting the death of his wife and their three children.
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Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but he became a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies, and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative, and social criticism in Huckleberry Finn. He was a master of rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language.
A complete bibliography of Twain's works...
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A Different Kind of Humor. The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th,century and early 20th,century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren't humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don't wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women....
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). He is perhaps best remembered for his sharp wit and cutting satire, which manifested in both his speech and written works. "The American Satirist" contains a collection of some of Twain's...
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Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, Clemens served two weeks in the Missouri State Guard before he fled west to begin his career as a writer. After the Civil War dramatically altered the course of Twain's life and career, his thoughts and stories about the war were published...
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Twain's third book, published in 1871, sends up the genre of autobiography, inventing ancestors such as saber-swinging Augustus Twain; John Morgan Twain, who came to America with Columbus; and wilderness adventurer Mighty-Hunter-With-Hog-Eye Twain. Also includes the spoof "First Romance," an over-the-top medieval tale of court intrigue and impostors.