All Things Twain

Author : Jackson Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781418571207

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P.S. I Love You by Jackson Brown Pdf

"Mom loved to write to my sister and me," H. Jackson Brown writes. "They began when I was an eight-year old camper away from home for the first time. When I opened Mom's letter, I would always read the P.S. first. I just couldn't wait to discover what revelations, humor,observations, admonitions, and encouragement she wanted to share with me." "No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs you back,"says one P.S. "Middle age is when you have two choices and you choosethe one that gets you home earlier, " says another. Jack Brown's mother shared valuable advice with him about the issues ofwisdom, hope, humor, and faith. "Although some were written more thanthirty years ago," Brown says, "they still run with truth andinsight."

Author : Mark Twain,Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486489230

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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Mark Twain,Bob Blaisdell Pdf

"Familiarity breeds contempt — and children." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "Heaven for climate. Hell for company." This attractive paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters, and autobiography.

Author : Марк Твен
Publisher : Litres
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785457749306

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Mark Twain's Speeches by Марк Твен Pdf

One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, for school graduations, at banquets for distinguished visitors, and at events sponsored by charitable organizations, reform groups, and the like. Published a few months after his death, this wide-ranging collection of speeches, spanning more than four decades, covers the gamut of Mark Twain's interests.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486123318

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Mark Twain at Your Fingertips by Mark Twain Pdf

Gathered from Twain's classic novels, diary entries, newspaper articles, and correspondence, this collection of wry quips and quotes offers the great humorist and storyteller's observations on animals, critics, politics, youth, and more.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1628341475

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Pdf

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Author : Gary Scharnhorst,Leslie Diane Myrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476690643

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Mark Twain and the Critics, 1891-1910 by Gary Scharnhorst,Leslie Diane Myrick Pdf

Over the last twenty years of his life, Mark Twain was a controversial figure. He evolved from the "clown prince of American literature" into a biting social critic and political observer. While some pundits hailed him as a satirist equal to Cervantes and Jonathan Swift, others excoriated him as a "degenerate literary freak" who wielded a "scurrilous and venomous pen." This volume traces the evolution of Mark Twain's public image between 1891 and his death in 1910. It features hundreds of reviews and other critical notices in magazines and newspapers across the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. The selected samples represent the full range of critical opinion, whether favorable or hostile, about his late writings. Sources reflect geographical differences in Twain's reputation, such as the conflicted responses in the British colonies towards his anti-imperialism and the pious disapproval in the American heartland of his attacks on foreign missions.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781427077356

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Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain Pdf

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Author : Cindy Lovell
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0313372136

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All Things Twain by Cindy Lovell Pdf

Written with the needs of high school students in mind, this reference explores the cultural history of Mark Twain's world, provides insight and perspective into the background of his writings, and helps readers learn about American history through his works.

Author : Peter Messent,Louis J. Budd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119045397

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A Companion to Mark Twain by Peter Messent,Louis J. Budd Pdf

This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613100202

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The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Arthur G. Pettit
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813148786

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Mark Twain And The South by Arthur G. Pettit Pdf

The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.

Author : Harold H. Kolb
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780761864219

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Mark Twain by Harold H. Kolb Pdf

Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with a discussion of humor, and then demonstrates how Twain’s artistic strategies, his remarkable achievements, and even his philosophy were bound together in his conception of humor, and how this conception developed across a forty-five year career. Kolb shows that Twain is a writer whose lifelong mode of perception is essentially humorous, a writer who sees the world in the sharp clash of contrast, whose native language is exaggeration, and whose vision unravels and reorganizes our perceptions. Humor, in all its mercurial complexity, is at the center of Mark Twain’s talent, his successes, and his limitations. It is as a humorist—amiably comic, sharply satiric, grimly ironic, simultaneously humorous and serious—that he is best understood.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 1669 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783849644123

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Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches by Mark Twain Pdf

This huge volume contains Mark Twains letters, starting from the year 1853, where he lived in New York and Phliadelphia, and ending with his last trip to Bermuda in the year of his death, 1910. His most important speeches are also included in this volume.

Author : Doug Aldridge
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476668451

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Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent by Doug Aldridge Pdf

Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.

Author : Roberta S. Trites
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587297700

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Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Roberta S. Trites Pdf

Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature. Both intuited that the transitory nature of adolescence makes it ripe for expression about human potential for change and reform.