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Mark Twain

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115382

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Provides a biography of Mark Twain along with critical views of his works.

Mark Twain And The South

Author : Arthur G. Pettit
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 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a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters.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.

Mark Twain

Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847395993

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Twain's story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain's letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West, and witnessed and joined the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and of the Gilded Age. Through it all he observed, borrowed, stole and combined the characters he met into the voice of America's greatest literature, attracting throngs of fans wherever his undying lust for wandering took him. From Twain's wicked satire to his relationships with the likes of Ulysses Grant, this is a brilliantly written story that astounds, amuses and edifies as only a great life can.

The Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy)

Author : Barbara Kerley
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780545125086

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The Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy) by Barbara Kerley Pdf

Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain,Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,7 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.

Mark Twain's Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : New York ; London : Harper & brothers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015020697317

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Mark Twain's Autobiography by Mark Twain Pdf

Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924.

Who Was Mark Twain?

Author : April Jones Prince,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780448433196

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Who Was Mark Twain? by April Jones Prince,Who HQ Pdf

A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating life is captured candidly in this enjoyable biography.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798722835390

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Pdf

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553211955

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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

Author : Mark Twain,Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Barry Moser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520271524

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Mark Twain’s Book of Animals by Mark Twain,Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Barry Moser Pdf

"For those unaware—as I was until I read this book—that Mark Twain was one of America's early animal advocates, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's collection of his writings on animals will come as a revelation. Many of these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written, and it's wonderful to have them gathered in one place." —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save “A truly exhilarating work. Mark Twain's animal-friendly views would not be out of place today, and indeed, in certain respects, Twain is still ahead of us: claiming, correctly, that there are certain degraded practices that only humans inflict on one another and upon other animals. Fishkin has done a splendid job: I cannot remember reading something so consistently excellent."—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Face on Your Plate "Shelley Fisher Fishkin has given us the lifelong arc of the great man's antic, hilarious, and subtly profound explorations of the animal world, and she's guided us through it with her own trademark wit and acumen. Dogged if she hasn't." —Ron Powers, author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Mark Twain: A Life

Mark Twain in China

Author : Selina Lai-Henderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804794756

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Mark Twain in China by Selina Lai-Henderson Pdf

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.

Mark Twain, American Humorist

Author : Tracy Wuster
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826274113

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Mark Twain, American Humorist by Tracy Wuster Pdf

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

Inventing Mark Twain

Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0753804581

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Inventing Mark Twain by Andrew Jay Hoffman Pdf

This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.

The Family of Mark Twain

Author : Twain Mark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748362962

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A Biographical Summary of Mark Twain.

A Horse's Tale

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074842422

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