This collection includes three of classic American author Mark Twain’s best known and beloved novels. Tom Sawyer recounts the adventures of a self-confident but naïve boy who runs away with his friend, Huckleberry Finn, after witnessing a murder. Along the way, they have many adventures and meet interesting people. Tom’s childish innocence contrasts starkly with the cruelty and hypocrisy that fill the adult world. Frequently lauded as The Great American Novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
This story has been a favorite of many since they have read as a child. They have re-read it many, many times, most recently to their own children (who will also enjoy it), and it continues to be rich and engaging. <p> A beggar (Tom Canty) and a prince (Edward Tudor), who look so alike as to be twins, meet and swap clothes for a lark. But an accident of judgment stretches the lark into an adventure, and the adventure into a nightmarish struggle of life and death, honor and dishonor. ...
There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twains Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared. <p> Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly speaks with forked tongue, Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to...
The funniest book ever written-in the history of time! – Ok, maybe that is a minor overstatement, but this is one hilarous book, to be read by people who have travelled, who plan to travel, and generally, people who want to laugh. A lot. <p> The book is also surprising for its timeless points about the journeying of certain upper white, middle class people going on a grand tour of Europe. I frequently had to remind myself that it was written in 1869 because his observations and the...
Knallkopf Wilson gelesen von Heikko Deutschmann 1894 entstand diese wunderbare Gesellschaftssatire, die nun in einer Neuübersetzung von Heikko Deutschmann ungekürzt gelesen wird. Twain kolloriert das Leben in dem kleinen Städtchen Dawson's Landng mit seiner unvergleichlichen Art des Sprachwitzes und seinem spitzfedrigen Humor.
Any reader who loves a good book will relish the vicarious experience of traveling with Twain, his wife, Livy, and Clara, one of their three daughters as they tour the world on the lecture circuit. Its important to understand the necessity of the trip: Twain was 60, facing bankruptcy, and signed on for the lecture tour in order to pay off his debt. The grueling schedule and unpredictable travel accommodations take no toll on his writing, however. Prepare to laugh – hard and often. Was it hot in...
This book contains a couple of very entertaining short stories, including the one mentioned in the title, along with a great ending about Adam and Eve, as well as a lot of ancedotes about all sorts of things. <p> If you are a fan of Mark Twain, I would highly recommend this collection. The ancedotal material contains a lot of insight into Samuel Clemons, as well as his transition to the writer, Mark Twain. I was much impressed. I found myself thinking of Leno and Carson in regards to a...
This volume spans the length of Mark Twains career, and contains some of his most famous shorter works, which all centre on the subject of Money. The Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County is the most perfect tall tale in the English language, three flawless pages about Jim Smiley and the bizarre sidelines he would investigate to win a bet, any bet, written in a miraculous mid-19th century California vernacular. If that isnt enough, Twain tops it with the best closing paragraph of any work...
