E-artnow, 2017. — 12311 p. — ISBN 978-80-268-7815-5. This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventures of...
"A Burlesque Autobiography" is an 1871 book by American author Mark Twain. Published by Sheldon & Co. in 1871, the book consists of two short stories: "A Burlesque Autobiography", which first appeared in Twain's Memoranda contributions to The Galaxy, and "First Romance", which originally appeared in The Express in 1870. This short work is split in two parts. The first part is a...
Illustrated. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In it, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
In it, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the...
"A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. The book is told from the standpoint of a loyal household pet, a Dog self described by the first sentence of the story; "My sister was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian." The story begins with a description of the dog's life as a...
"A Double Barreled Detective Story" is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fiancé Jacob Fuller, while she bore his child. The child was born and named Archy Stillman and when he got older,...
"A Horse's Tale" is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. This starts of with an unusual perspective on his rider and life in general - it's a book written in the some places from the horse's point of view, with a wide range of comments...
"A Tramp Abroad" is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey...
In this collection, fans of Twain will surely enjoy reading his essays like "On The Decay of the Art of Lying," "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," and "Concerning the English Language," and "Speech on the Weather." While some of the other stories here are not great, it's worth reading every story here in order to understand just how gifted Twain is in my arenas of...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived interest...
Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) intended for his autobiography to be published long after he died. He felt that he couldn't be honest about his experiences and contemporaries if he was worried about the reaction of others. However, in 1906 he agreed to publish selections from the autobiography in the North American Review, from September 1906 through December 1907. The twenty-five...
The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). Twain's first article about Christian Science was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. A...
Delphi Classics. 2012. — 12075 p. This book collected — Novels, Short stories, Essays, Travel, Non - fiction, Letters, Speeches, Criticism, Biographies Rich illustrated. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Among his writings are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 10338 p. This is the Complete works of America's favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains every novel, short story - even the very rare ones ñ essay, travel book, non-fiction text, letter and much, much more!
The wit and wisdom of Mark Twain are evident in this book. The reader may derive more pleasure from it by first dabbling in the works of Bourget. The pretense of the book is that it is a dialogue with Bourget. It seemed a doubtful scheme. He could explain us to himself--that would be easy. That would be the same as the naturalist explaining the bug to himself. But to explain the...
"Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar. It is written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve, and is claimed to be "translated from the original MS." The "plot" of this story is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her...
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last story published by Twain during his life. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic...
In the form of a diary, Adam (based on Twain himself) describes how Eve (modeled after his wife Livy) gets introduced into the Garden of Eden, and how he has to deal with "this new creature with the long hair"[1] The piece gives a humorous account of Genesis.
"Following the Equator" (sometimes titled "More Tramps Abroad") is a non-fiction travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Twain included a number of fictional stories in the body of what is otherwise a non-fiction work. In particular, the story of how Cecil Rhodes made his fortune by finding a newspaper in the belly of a shark, and the story of how a man named Ed Jackson made...
New York and London Harper & Brothers publishers, 1898. — 246 p.
How to Tell a Story.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley.
Fenimore Cooper s Literary Offences.
Travelling with a Reformer.
The Private History of the Jumping Frog Story.
Mental Telegraphy Again.
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us.
A little Note to Paul Bourget.
New York and London Harper & Brothers publishers, 1898. - 20 pp.
This collection includes "How to Tell a Story," "Mental Telegraphy Again," and "The Invalid's Story."
Dover publications, Inc. Mineola, New York. -74p. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Journalism in Tennessee About Barbers A literary Nightmare The Stolen White Elephant The Private History of a Campaign that Failed Fenimore Cooper's literary Offences How to Tell a Story
Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject. In the book, Twain expounds the view that Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author of the canon, and lends tentative...
The P. P. Warren Co., Boston, 1905. Second edition. — 56 p. Twain's biting satire on the gruesome Belgian reign over the Congo. The book ostensibly recounts Leopold speaking in his own defense. Rarely included in Twain collections. According to the author's wish, the American publisher P. R. Warren Company from Boston, donated all surplus to relief and aid in the Congo atrocities.
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain, of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as...
New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. — 417 p. This book contains a collection of writings taken from Mark Twain’s notebooks. In his journal, Mark Twain (1835-1910) recorded in random phrase and fashion, whatever seemed to him worth noting, dealing with a wide range of subjects ranging from politics and religion to the divine right of kings and general...
Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869). The book follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman (not included in the account),...
Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. My Watch Political Economy The Jumping Frog Journalism In Tennessee The Story Of The Bad Little Boy The Story Of The Good Little Boy A Couple Of Poems By...
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), published together in 1906. The $30,000 Bequest. A Dog's Tale. Was It Heaven? Or Hell? A Cure for the Blues. The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant. The Californian's Tale. A Helpless Situation. A Telephonic Conversation. Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale. The Five Boons of Life. The First...
The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is a 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...
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck"...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often referred to as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or shortened to Huckleberry Finn or simply Huck Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in February 1885. Commonly recognized as one of the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color...
Литература для чтения на английском языке 6й уровень.
1884
397 pages
‘Well, I’m puzzled. Is something the matter?’
‘Please take it,’ says I, ‘and don’t ask me noth-ing — then I won’t have to tell no lies.’
He studied a while, and then he says:
‘Oho-o! I think I see. You want to SELL all your property to me — not give it. That’s the correct idea.’
Then he wrote...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first of Mark Twain's novels to feature one of the best-loved characters in American fiction, with a critical introduction by John Seelye in Penguin Classics. From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in...
Всеми любимая классика - приключения Тома Сойера (на английском языке). Читать для детей - не просто удовольствие, вы и ваш ребенок извлекаете пользу и удовольствие от чтения. Ваш ребенок останется доволен.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the town of "St Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up. In the story's introduction, Twain notes: "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 238 p. — (Oxford World's Classics). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Stoneley. Peter Stoneley's wide-ranging introduction looks at the genesis of the text, its historical reception, and recent criticism, paying particular attention to how Twain's invocation of an American pastoral relates to contemporary and present-day anxieties...
EMC Publ, 1998. - 258 pages. Trouble's a-brewin'! For Tom Sawyer and his friends, every day is filled with adventure and mayhem. With murder mysteries to solve, pirate islands and robbers' dens to explore, and mischief to make, the quiet town of St. Petersburg doesn't remain sleepy for long! Readers around the world love this tale of suspense and comedy. This complete study...
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature. Indeed, all the weather is contained in...
Published: Gutenberg Project.
All Project Gutenberg Mark Twain books in one file!
This is a compilation of all the works of Mark Twain in the Project Gutenberg Mark Twain collection which now has over sixty files. These individual files have been prepared by many different Gutenberg volunteers over a period of many years.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post–Civil War America in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had...
This delightful collection of lesserknown gems by Mark Twain begins with the story of a town called Hadleyburg, which prides itself on the honesty of its citizens. One day a citizen of Hadleyburg offends a stranger passing through, who vows to take his revenge by revealing just how corruptible the sanctimonious town really is. Twain is at his best here, poking fun at common...
The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories' by American author Mark Twain, contains the novel 'The Mysterious Stranger' and the short stories 'A Fable', 'Hunting the Deceitful Turkey', and 'The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm'. 'The Mysterious Stranger' is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas...
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The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned...
Illustrated. The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned...
The Prince and the Pauper is an English-language novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the United States. The book represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, the novel tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive...
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.
A man who is born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality. He knows these people, he knows the selected locality, and he trusts that he can plunge those people into...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of 19th-century...
СПб.: КАРО, 2015. — 321 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9925-0537-5. Предлагаем вниманию читателей знаменитый роман Марка Твена об увлекательных приключениях американского мальчика Тома Сойера и его друзей. В книге представлен неадаптированный текст романа, снабженный подробным комментарием.
Марк Твен (настоящее имя Сэмюэл Лэнгхорн Клеменс ; 30 ноября 1835, посёлок Флорида (штат Миссури) - 21 апреля 1910, Реддинг (штат Коннектикут); похоронен в Элмайре (штат Нью-Йорк) - выдающийся американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель. Его творчество охватывает множество жанров - реализм, романтизм, юмор, сатира, философская фантастика, публицистика и др., и во всех...
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