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Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one, who has read it will ever forget.
The book is, noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years, before the work was, published. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often-scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism....
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Illustrated with beautiful chapter headings that match the book cover!
1601, written by Mark Twain, is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two others... If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it. 1601 depicts a highfalutin and earthy discussion between the Queen and her court...
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Six volumes in one, Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. A prolificacy of letters, reflecting Twain's role as 'a mighty national menace to sham'. Like all life's, Twain's was a rich evolution of character and concerns as reflected in this collection of his personal correspondence. Throughout, he maintains a wonderful sense of humour and phrasing that is compelling to his readers. His younger letters are playful whereas his older ones show a more tempered...
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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was, made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things, which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody, but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly-Tom's Aunt Polly, she is, and Mary and the Widow Douglas...
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Mark Twain's novels are filled with humor, wit, and astounding insight into the world of the 19th-century United States. Written entirely in the vernacular, these classic satirical tales exposed the bigotry and hypocrisy of American life. The cheerful Tom Sawyer, the good-natured Huck Finn, the independent Hank Morgan, and the well-meaning Tom Canty are quintessential Twain characters, full of life, verve, and a sense of justice they often felt was...
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A collection of classic books which have been banned at some point in time: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain; The Jungle, Upton Sinclair; The Call of the Wild, Jack London; Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence; Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe; The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine; Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, John Cleland; The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx; On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau; Alice's...
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Filled with the folk humor and storytelling charm that have made Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn such enduringly popular characters, these two comic gems trace the friends' further adventures. Tom Sawyer, Detective finds the boys summoned by Aunt Sally to "Arkansaw," where Uncle Silas is in deep trouble. Tom puts his mail-order detective kit to good use as he and Huck get involved in a diamond heist, meet a mysterious stranger, and borrow a bloodhound to...
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Un pequeño mendigo que, para esconder sus penurias, se adentra en los cuentos de príncipes y princesas. Una tarde, decide caminar hacia el palacio para poder hacer realidad su único deseo: ver a un príncipe de verdad. Pero un inesperado acto de bondad, realizado por un príncipe, daría vuelco no sólo a la vida del pequeño mendigo, sino también la del mismo príncipe. Ambientado en 1547, Mark Twain, a pesar de ser un escritor estadounidense,...
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Following the Equator is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into the failed Paige Compositor. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2,975,000 in 2020) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895 at age 60, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in English.