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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of ...
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
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Mark Twain
In Twain's 1889 satire/fantasy, Hank Morgan, a Hartford factory worker, after a blow to the head, finds himself transported to sixth-century England, where his knowledge of the scientific advances of the 19th century convince Arthur and his knights that he has magical powers. His attempts to introduce advanced technology lead to disaster. Twain's ...
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Though TOM SAWYER, Twain's "other" coming-of-age tale, has much in common with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, including some of the characters, its hero is not the maverick iconoclast that Huck Finn is. As Twain traces the comic adventures of the inventive young Tom, he effectively and lovingly recreates the pastoral world of his own Hannibal, Missouri, ...
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Prince & the Pauper
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Mark Twain
Twain published this novel himself in collaboration with the firm of James R. Osgood. A satiric costume novel full of mock-elegant language and convoluted plot elements, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER was a critical and financial failure in its day, and a personal disaster for Twain.
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Life on the Mississippi
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Mark Twain
In Twain's history/memoir/travel book, he writes about his early life, his experiences as a river pilot, and his return to those scenes many years later, evaluating the changes in the landscape, the political and social climate, and himself.
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Innocents Abroad
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Mark Twain
A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known writer such as Gore Vidal or George Plimpton. In INNOCENTS ABROAD, Twain's two characters, "Mr. Brown" and himself, ...
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Roughing It
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This comic narrative is based on Twain's six years of "variegated vagabonding" in the American West at the height of silver-mining fever. Twain's naive narrator, after immersion in the rough and practical American West, becomes educated in the ways of the world. Twain's perennial theme of the outsider trying to fit into a society that is alien to ...
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Puddnhead Wilson
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Mark Twain's classic satirical tale of race and identity. Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country ...
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Tramp Abroad
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A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known writer such as Gore Vidal or George Plimpton.
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Letters from the Earth
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Mark Twain
This exuberantly eclectic collection of Twain's writings includes parody, criticism, and commentary, all published after his death in 1910.
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Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
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This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, A Day at Niagara, Legend of the Capitoline Venus, Journalism in ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Introduction by)
Newly repackaged and featuring a new Introduction, Twain's classic tales of life on the Mississippi capture both the complexities of American life while regaling the boyhood adventures of two of the most popular characters in American literature. Reissue.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
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Mark Twain
This low-priced volume gathers together hundreds of Twain's most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel, and sundry topics that occupied his thoughts over 50 years of writing and lecturing.
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Huckleberry Finn
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Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of ...
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Tom Sawyer
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Diaries of Adam and Eve
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Mark Twain
A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known writer such as Gore Vidal or George Plimpton.
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Personal recollections of Joan of Arc
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A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known writer such as Gore Vidal or George Plimpton.
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Joan of Arc
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Mark Twain
Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on St. Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work, spending 12 years in research and many months in France doing archival research. A book to inform and inspire its readers.
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History of the conquest of Mexico
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William Hickling Prescott
One of the most famous history books ever written--and an excellent account of Mexican civilization at the time of the conquest. Here is a rich portrait of Aztec culture, which dominated the many races of Mexico with savage brutality, and of Hernando Cortes and his small party of cavaliers, who succeeded against all odds in defeating them. As the ...
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Charles Neider
Intending its publication to be posthumous, Twain strove for absolute truth in his autobiography, which he planned all his life to write and finally dictated to a stenographer in 1905 and 1906. The book is a candid revelation of his strengths and weaknesses as a human being and as a writer.
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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Mark Twain
Fascinating humorous account of 1897 voyage to Hawaii, Australia, India, New Zealand, etc. Ironic, bemused reports on peoples, customs, climate, flora and fauna, politics, much more. 197 illustrations.
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The War Prayer
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Mark Twain
Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, "The War Prayer" tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by ...
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The Bible According to Mark Twain
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Mark Twain, Howard G Baetzhold (Editor), Joseph B McCullough (Editor)
Behind the humor of these pieces, readers will see Twain's serious thoughts on the relationship between God and Man, biblical inconsistencies, Darwinism, science, and the impact of technology on religious beliefs. "A fascinating panoply of wit, satire, farce, fantasy, lyricism, heresy, the sardonic, and the controversial".--Patricia Hassler, ...
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Annotated Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
Michael Patrick Hearn elucidates, explicates, and enlarges upon Twain's classic work in this version, which also includes an overview of the book's critical reception when it was published and a study of Twain's use of dialect. Among other things, he also defines "huckleberry" and gives a recipe for corn pone.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those extraordinary twins
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Mark Twain's classic satirical tale of race and identity. Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country ...
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