Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
By Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Geoffrey C Ward" Critical opinion of this book hasn't dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain "makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been possible.
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Mark Twain
By Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Geoffrey C Ward" Critical opinion of this book hasn't dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain "makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been possible.
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Mark Twain: A Biography
By Connie Ann Kirk... a time with Annie Taylor, a student at Iowa Wesleyan Univer' sity whom he met through his sister'in—law, yet romance would not hold him. He dreamed of heading out to see the Amazon River, a desire prob' ably fueled by his reading of ...
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Mark Twain
By Kevin J. HayesAn indefatigable inventor of tall tales, Mark Twain was a natural-born storyteller who freely adapted the incidents of his life and the tales he heard as a youth to embellish his fiction—as well as his travel writing and memoirs.
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Mark Twain: Novelist, Humorist, Satirist, Grassroots Historian, and America's Unpaid Goodwill Ambassador at Large
By Robin McKownLed by a priest , they had come to the winter palace to present a petition to Czar Nicholas II . The massacre of January 5 precipitated the abortive 1905 revolution . In March , the North American Review printed “ The Czar's Soliloquy ...
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Mark Twain
By Ron PowersBut then we were so hard upfi On February 6, his notebook jotting reads: Coleman with his jumping frog—bet stranger $50—stranger had no frog, 8: C got him one—in the meantime stranger filled C's frog full ofshot & he couldn'tjump— the ...
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Mark Twain: The Gift of Humor
By Harold H. KolbKolb shows that humor is at the center of Twain's talent, his successes, and his limitations, and it is as a humorist that he is best understood.
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Mark Twain: A Biography
By Sheba Blake, Albert Bigelow PaineAnything left of Hoffman?" "No," I said. "I must watch for the Bermudian and ... He drifted to Macaulay again, and spoke of King James's plot to assassinate William II., and how the clergy had brought themselves to see that there was no ...
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Mark Twain: The Complete Novels (House of Classics)
By Mark Twain, House of ClassicsThe old man said that what a man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again. And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; ...
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Mark Twain: The Complete Novels (XVII Classics) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) Included Bonus + Active TOC
By Mark TwainThe old man said that what a man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again. And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; ...
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Mark Twain: Five Novels
By Mark TwainThe old man said that what a man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again. And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; ...
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Mark Twain: Complete Works
By Mark Twain, Golden Deer ClassicsThen the old man he signed a pledge—made his mark. The judge said it was the holiest time on record, or something like that. Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got ...
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Mark Twain: Humour on the Run
By Stuart HutchinsonAll the positives belong to another , in this case to Chambers , Tom's slave and mirror image . Tom can commandeer Chambers ' qualities , but they can never inhere in him . He is forever divided from them . No wonder Twain also needs ...
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Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (LOA #21)
By Mark TwainThe result is an enduring picture of the old Western frontier in all its original vigor and variety. In these two works, never before brought together so compactly, Mark Twain achieves his mastery of the vernacular style.
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Mark Twain: Five Novels
By Mark TwainThis edition of Mark Twain is a treasure to enjoy forever--just like the writing of Twain himself!
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Mark Twain
By I. M. Walker"Cover"--"Half Title Page"--"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Original Title Page" -- "Original Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Mark Twain: His Life and Works " -- "Scheme of Extracts " -- "The Comic Narrator " -- "1 The Innocents ...
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Mark Twain: Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher
By Gary Scott SmithSelected Bibliography Primary Sources Autobiography of Mark Twain . 3 vols . ... The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2017 . ... 1–5 : 1876–1880 . Mark Twain Project .
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Mark Twain: Five Novels
By Mark TwainThis edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans.
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Mark Twain: Complete Novels
By Mark TwainCONTENTS: 1.
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Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels (LOA #200)
By Mark TwainThis volume also includes 13 shorter pieces, most of them uncollected by the author, including a lengthy firsthand narrative of the shah of Persia's 1873 visit to London, an 1891 description of Richard Wagner's operas performed at Bayreuth, ...