A Mark Twain Christmas

Author : Carlo DeVito
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604335736

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A Mark Twain Christmas by Carlo DeVito Pdf

Filled with the remarkable wit and humor of America's favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain's life through little known stories about how he and his family celebrated this treasured holiday. “If my boot should leave a stain on the marble…leave it there always in memory of my visit…and let it remind you to be a good little girl.” When Market Twain penned this enchanting letter from “Your loving Santa Claus” to his daughter Susy in 1875, a holiday tradition was born inside the Twain family home. And while Twain is celebrated as the sharpest satirist in American letters, he always had a soft spot for Christmas. A Mark Twain Christmas is in turns charming, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, and it ultimately reaffirms the magic of the Christmas spirit. Looking in on three holiday seasons with Twain, we learn more about the man than we ever knew before, and we discover fascinations from gifted elephants to burglar letters to Santa’s bootprints. But most of all, we regain an understanding of what is most important in our own lives, and that is the greatest gift of the Christmas season.

Author : Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,L. M. Montgomery,Mark Twain
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780785224242

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A Vintage Christmas by Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,L. M. Montgomery,Mark Twain Pdf

This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia. Filled with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Vintage Christmas is a unique collection of lesser-known Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season. Discover a charming story from L. M. Montgomery about love and sacrifice in a little log house. See Christmas through the eyes of a child in a New England colonial village with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Remember the reason Christ came to earth in the poetry of Anne Brontë. Share with your family the delightful letter Mark Twain wrote as Santa Claus to his three-year-old daughter. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Vintage Christmas is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes. Hardcover, giftable size Perfect as a stocking stuffer and host or hostess gift Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Classic Christmas and A Timeless Christmas

Author : Louisa May Alcott,Mark Twain,Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2382740248

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A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott,Mark Twain,Charles Dickens Pdf

Classic literary masterpieces help us to remind the spirit of Christmas and celebrate the timeless truths of the holiday season. This collection of Christmas short stories and tales by classic writers features works from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mark Twain, and more. A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories: An Anthology of Short Stories Before the Great Tradition of Christmas is a book devoted to be enjoyed by the whole family during the Advent season. SHORT STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True" "A Country Christmas" L. M. MONTGOMERY "Christmas at Red Butte" "A Christmas Inspiration" "A Christmas Mistake" "Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket" WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS "Christmas Every Day" HARRIET BEECHER STOWE "Christmas; Or, the Good Fairy" "Christmas in Poganuc" CHARLES DICKENS "A Christmas Dinner" MARK TWAIN "A Letter from Santa Claus" KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA A. SMITH "The Story of Christmas" RALPH HENRY BARBOUR "A College Santa Claus"

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000100146

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A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain Pdf

Mark Twain wrote this letter to his 3 year old daughter from Santa Claus in 1875. You could say he was over the moon for her: “My Dear Susy Clemens, I have received and read all the letters which you and your little sister have written me . . . . I can read your and your baby sister's jagged and fantastic marks without any trouble at all. But I had trouble with those letters which you dictated through your mother and the nurses, for I am a foreigner and cannot read English writing well”.

Author : Charles Dickens,G. K. Chesterton,L. M. Montgomery,L. Frank Baum,Mark Twain,Louisa May Alcott,Leo Tolstoy,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Nikolay Gogol,William Dean Howells,Joseph Rudyard Kipling,Elizabeth Harrison,John Milton,Hans Christian Andersen,Selma Lagerlof,Clement Moore,Henry van Dyke,Beatrix Potter,Anton Chehov
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000097002

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35+ Anthology of Christmas stories. Classic collection. Illustrated by Charles Dickens,G. K. Chesterton,L. M. Montgomery,L. Frank Baum,Mark Twain,Louisa May Alcott,Leo Tolstoy,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Nikolay Gogol,William Dean Howells,Joseph Rudyard Kipling,Elizabeth Harrison,John Milton,Hans Christian Andersen,Selma Lagerlof,Clement Moore,Henry van Dyke,Beatrix Potter,Anton Chehov Pdf

Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the “bourgeois paradise” truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize. Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree. Contents: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol The Chimes G.K. Chesterton A Christmas Carol L.M. Montgomery The Red Room A Christmas Mistake A Christmas Inspiration The Josephs' Christmas Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket The Osbornes' Christmas Bertie's New Year Ida's New Year Cake The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road Clorinda's Gifts The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner The Unforgotten One Christmas at Red Butte Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner L. Frank Baum A Kidnapped Santa Claus Little Bun Rabbit Mark Twain A Letter from Santa Claus Louisa May Alcott A Merry Christmas Leo Tolstoy A Russian Christmas Party Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Christmas Bells The Three Kings Nikolay Gogol Christmas Eve William Dean Howells Christmas Everyday The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express Joseph Rudyard Kipling Christmas in India Elizabeth Harrison Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Hans Christian Andersen The Fir Tree Selma Lagerlof The Holy Night Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl Clement Moore The Night Before Christmas Henry van Dyke The Other Wise Man Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester Anton Chehov Vanka

Author : Joyce Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0882431021

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The Prince and the Pauper by Joyce Reynolds Pdf

Author : Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,L. Frank Baum,Leo Tolstoy,Algernon Blackwood,Mark Twain,Brothers Grimm,Willa Cather,O. Henry,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Saki
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486852034

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The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,L. Frank Baum,Leo Tolstoy,Algernon Blackwood,Mark Twain,Brothers Grimm,Willa Cather,O. Henry,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Saki Pdf

Experience the wonder of Christmas through some of our greatest literary minds. Includes sixteen classic stories authored by Alcott, Baum, Cather, Dickens, Grimm, Hawthorne, Henry, Stowe, Tolstoy, and Twain.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 9694 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547678755

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The Complete Works of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

This is the Complete Works of America's favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays, letters, speeches). Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1063 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547680581

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The Historical Novels of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain, originally published in book form in 1896. The 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 inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, published in 1896, is the remarkable story of the saint's life as told by the fictional Sieur Louis de Conté, Joan's page and secretary, in the form of a memoir written in the twilight of life. The character has had the privilege of growing up with Joan of Arc, accompanying her during the excitement and pageantry of her military campaigns, and being present at each of her three trials. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2877 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547782766

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The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: A Tale of Today The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The American Claimant Tom Sawyer Abroad Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer, Detective Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc A Horse's Tale The Mysterious Stranger Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

Author : Kinky Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416534983

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The Christmas Pig by Kinky Friedman Pdf

Putting a new twist on a Christmas tale in his own inimitable way, Friedman offers this story set in a magic kingdom. Commissioned by the king to paint the nativity scene to be unveiled at Christmas midnight mass, a ten-year-old autistic boy boy, who has never spoken, befriends a pig who helps him find his voice and his heart.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520931343

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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living by Mark Twain Pdf

Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook—an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race—contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : EAN:8596547762713

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The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: How To Tell A Story And Other Essays; How To Tell A Story; The Wounded Soldier.; The Golden Arm.; Mental Telegraphy Again; The Invalid's Story; A Salutation Speech From The Nineteenth Century To The Twentieth; The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Updated; To The Person Sitting In Darkness; Private History Of The "Jumping Frog" Story; Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences; Running For Governor; Stirring Times In Austria; Concerning The Jews; Comments On The Moro Massacre; Carl Schurz, Pilot; Taming The Bicycle; To My Missionary Critics; King Leopold's Soliloquy; The United States Government And The Congo State.; In Defense Of Harriet Shelley; Essays On Paul Bourget; What Is Man?; The Death Of Jean; The Turning-Point Of My Life; How To Make History Dates Stick; The Memorable Assassination; A Scrap Of Curious History; Switzerland, The Cradle Of Liberty; At The Shrine Of St. Wagner; William Dean Howells; English As She Is Taught; On Girls; A Simplified Alphabet; As Concerns Interpreting The Deity; Concerning Tobacco; The Bee; Is Shakespeare Dead?; The United States Of Lyncherdom; Letters From The Earth. Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798574648377

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The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories by Mark Twain Pdf

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759527751

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The Christmas Train by David Baldacci Pdf

A journalist on a cross-country Christmas train scales the rugged terrain of his own heart in this New York Times bestselling holiday tale that inspired the Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie! Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost. David Baldacci's THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN is filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief...and shows how we do get second chances to fulfill our deepest hopes and dreams, especially during this season of miracles.