Mark Twain
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Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the «vigorous new vernacular» of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, <I>Roughing It </I>was greeted as a work of «wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration» whose satiric humor made «pretension and false dignity ridiculous.» Meticulously restored...
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Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It 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, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It...
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Twain Mark, właściwie Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), pisarz amerykański. Samouk, wędrowny drukarz, pilot na Missisipi, poszukiwacz złota w Nevadzie, wreszcie dziennikarz. Odbył wiele podróży po Ameryce i kilkakrotnie odwiedził Europę, wyśmiewając dumę i wyrafinowanie kulturalne mieszkańców Starego Świata. Popularność jako pisarz zyskał z chwilą opublikowania humoreski O sławnej skaczącej żabie z Calaveras (1865).
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o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902 o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of «Villagers of 1840-3,» Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be...
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"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." — Following the EquatorSo begins this classic piece of travel writing, brimming with Twain's celebrated brand of ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor. Written just before the turn of the century, the book recounts a lecture tour in which he...
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"We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary." — Following the EquatorSo begins this classic piece of travel writing, brimming with Twain's celebrated brand of ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor. Written just before the turn of the century, the book recounts a lecture tour in which he...
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"How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
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Tom Sawyer vive en un pueblo a orillas del río Mississippi junto a su tía Polly, de quien suele escaparse para vivir entretenidas aventuras junto a su amigo Huckleberry Finn.
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Tom Sawyer vive en un pueblo a orillas del río Mississippi junto a su tía Polly, de quien suele escaparse para vivir entretenidas aventuras junto a su amigo Huckleberry Finn.
| Автор | Mark Twain |