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...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years, during which he beat a path across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. His spirited narrative relates a series of triumphs and misadventures and profiles a many-faceted succession of personalities and locales: the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains; Mormon society; the mines and miners of Nevada; the climate and characteristics of San Francisco; and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"Roughing It" 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 accessible to everyone in a...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel memoir, “Roughing It” was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to “Innocents Abroad”, in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, “Roughing It” conversely documents Twain’s early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect, Twain crafts a story which at once...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
This carefully crafted ebook: «Roughing It» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"Sketches New and Old" 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 accessible to...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is considered by many to be the greatest of all American novels. This sequel to Twain's «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,» is a first person narrative told by its title character. The novel picks up where «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» leaves off. Huck Finn who is now wealthy with the discovery of treasure at the end of «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» finds himself in great danger from his abusive drunkard father who wishes to cash in on Huck's...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard.
Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.
They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost – much, much worse…
| Автор | Марк Твен, Mark Twain |
Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly's cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school picnics into which sordid characters and violent incidents sometimes intruded. The tale powerfully appeals to both adult and young imaginations. Readers...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
The complete works of Mark Twain in one collection:<br><br>CONTENTS<br><br>THE INNOCENTS ABROAD<br>MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTO-BIOGRAPHY<br><br>FIRST ROMANCE.<br>ROUGHING IT<br>THE GILDED AGE (with Charles Dudley Warner)<br>SKETCHES NEW AND OLD<br><br>MY WATCH<br><br>POLITICAL ECONOMY<br><br>THE JUMPING FROG<br><br>JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE<br><br>THE STORY OF THE BAD...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a much loved and classic work of 19th century American literature. It is the story of Tom, a rambunctious young lad who lives with his Aunt Polly. Tom is a boy who doesn't much like going to school and throughout the book does everything he can to get out of it. Near the beginning of the novel Tom exhibits his keen wit by convincing some boys to paint his Aunt Polly's fence that he has been punished with having to paint on a Saturday for skipping...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" – Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, but shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness a trio of body snatchers getting into a fight. Tom and Huck run away to an island. While enjoying their new-found freedom, they become aware...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn – Complete Edition». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Huckleberry «Huck» Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain, who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 – 1910) is a children's novel first published in 1876. The scene is set around the 1940's along the Mississippi river (St Petersburg) and is about a young boy called Tom who gets up to all sorts of mischief. <br><br>This Mermaids Classics epublication is a reproduction of the 1884 edition by The American Publishing Company. Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
