Mark Twain
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Mark Twain: Humour on the Run
By Stuart HutchinsonThe International Lightening Trust " , Mark Twain's Fables of Man , ed . , John S. Tuckey ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1972 ) . " The Invalid's Story " ( alternative title " the Limburger Cheese Story " ) , first published as a 3,000 ...
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Mark Twain: The Gift of Humor
By Harold H. Kolb Jr.Mark Twain's Fables of Man, ed. John S. Tuckey, 1972. What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings, ed. Paul Baender, 1973. Includes, along with 21 shorter works, “Letters from the Earth” and two of Twain's published books—Christian ...
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Mark Twain: His Words, Wit, and Wisdom
By Mark Twain, R. Kent RasmussenOver 1,800 quips and quotes from an icon of American literature, on a variety of subjects from accidents to youth, and many in-between. All the humor, irreverence, and insight that...
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Mark Twain: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Prince and the Pauper & A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's...
By Mark TwainThe novel is a satirical comedy that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself ...
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Mark Twain: Protagonist for the Popular Culture
By Marlene Boyd VallinHow did Mark Twain develop his remarkable oral style of writing which was so carefully crafted? And what can we learn about nineteenth-century America from the public speeches of this...
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Mark Twain: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc-Original Edition(Annotated)
By Mark TwainThe work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, ""Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished ...
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Mark Twain
By Mark Twain, Prescott HillAdaptations of five humorous tales by Mark Twain, plus an introduction to the author and discussion questions.
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Mark Twain: Les aventures de Tom Sawyer
By Mark TwainConsidéré comme un classique de la littérature de jeunesse, Mark Twain le qualifie de " roman pour enfants pour adultes ".
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Mark Twain: Man in White : the Grand Adventure of His Final Years
By Michael SheldenAn in-depth biography of the man responsible for such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Prince and the Pauper offers an account of the humorist's later years.
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Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
By Stuart HutchinsonThe final section provides students with important material on the contemporary debates about race and gender in these novels.
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Mark Twain
By Haydn MiddletonThis volume features: panels including quotations and background information; pictures of Mark Twain's life and times; and a timeline of key events and significant works.
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Mark Twain: A Collection of Critical Essays
By Henry Nash SmithMirrors the changing morals of the United States literary climate, from the search for the "usable past" of the 1920's, through the social realism of the '30's, to the psychological...
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Mark Twain: Young Writer
By Miriam E. MasonEventually he settled on writing as a career. Mark Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it", too. He died the day following the comet's return.
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Mark Twain
By Mark TwainA simple retelling of five stories by Mark Twain, in which he pokes fun at newspapers, Victorian manners, obedience to one's parents, the British, and perceptions of reality.
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Mark Twain: A Life
By Ron PowersAlong the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature.
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Mark Twain: A Christian Response to His Battle With God
By Ray ComfortRay Comfort searches through volumes of Twain’s writings to develop a comprehensive answer to this profound writer of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and a man who suffered much.
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Mark Twain: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc-Original Edition(Annotated)
By Mark TwainThe work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, ""Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished ...
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Mark Twain: God's Fool
By Hamlin Lewis HillMark Twain: God's Fool
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Mark Twain: God's Fool
By Hamlin HillAs Mark Twain: God’s Fool demonstrates, the difficult circumstances of Twain’s personal life make his humorous output all the more surprising and admirable. “Ham[lin] Hill remains among the smartest, most honest, and most humane of ...
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Mark Twain
By Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom... hurdy-gurdy girls provide the music, and a little shooting adds to the fun,” replied mark twain. “You must put me ... girl who played polkas on the hurdy-gurdy to the dancers, and who spoke a little broken English. She had a look of ...