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Mark Twain
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Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1867–2027.
The exploits of Tom Sawyer, a consummate prankster with a quick wit, captivate children of all ages. Yet through the novel's humorous escapades, from the episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, Mark Twain explores deeper themes within the adult world Tom will one day join. These include the baser human instincts of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. This edition features a new introduction and notes by leading Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Penguin Classics
2014
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The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of unruly humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'. This edition features a new introduction and notes by leading Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen.
A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings
Mark Twain; Livy Clemens; Susy Clemens
University of California Press
2014
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This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write "A Family Sketch" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter, Susy, but the manuscript grew under his hands to become an exuberant account of the entire household. His record of the childrens' sayings - "Small Foolishnesses" - is next, followed by the related manuscript "At the Farm." Also included are selections from Livy's 1885 diary and an authoritative edition of Susy's biography of her father, written when she was a teenager. Newly edited from the original manuscripts, this anthology is a unique record of a fascinating family.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Part 6
Mark Twain
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, 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, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
Mark Twain
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Fils d'Henry VIII d'Angleterre, le prince de Galles r ve de courir en libert et de se battre dans les rues de Londres avec les gamins de son ge. En m me temps, dans un quartier sordide de la capitale anglaise, un petit pauvre r ve de devenir prince. Et si l'occasion tait offerte aux deux enfants de r aliser leur r ve, chacun prenant la place de l'autre ?
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Mark Twain
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fianc Jacob Fuller, while she bore his child. The child was born and named Archy Stillman and when he got older, the mother discovered that the child possessed an incredible ability of smell, like a bloodhound. The mother instructed her child, now sixteen, to seek out his biological father, destroy that man's peace and reputation, hence extract satisfaction for her.
Bourget, who had abandoned Catholicism in 1867, began a gradual return to it in 1889, fully converting only in 1901. In 1893, in an interview he gave in America, he spoke about his changed views: "For many years I, like most young men in modern cities, was content to drift along in agnosticism, but I was brought to my senses at last by the growing realization that...the life of a man who simply said 'I don't know, and not knowing I do the thing that pleases me, ' was not only empty in itself and full of disappointment and suffering, but was a positive influence for evil upon the lives of others." On the other hand, "those men and women who follow the teachings of the church are in a great measure protected from the moral disasters which...almost invariably follow when men and women allow themselves to be guided and swayed by their senses, passions and weaknesses.
The $30,000 Bequest: and Other Stories
Mark Twain
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Les aventures de Huck Finn: L'ami de Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Ce roman de Mark Twain est publi en 1885, neuf ans apr s les Aventures de Tom Sawyer et en constitue la suite logique. Les Aventures de Huck Finn d butent par le retour du p re de Huck. Ce dernier, cupide, violent et alcoolique, a appris la d couverte du tr sor par les enfants lors de leurs d m l s avec Joe l'Indien. Il souhaite donc r cup rer son fils, qu'il avait abandonn . Son seul dessein tant de mettre la main sur le tr sor d couvert par Tom et Huck. Huck Finn fuit son p re alcoolique et brutal et fait croire qu'il a t assassin . Il se retrouve sur les routes aux c t s de Jim, un esclave noir en fuite, qui lui est recherch , car on le soup onne justement d' tre le meurtrier de Huck. Les deux fugitifs souhaitent gagner ensemble, en radeau, le Nord abolitionniste. gar s sur le fleuve la suite d'une temp te, ils sont rattrap s et ne doivent leur salut qu' deux escrocs, qui s'empressent de revendre Jim ... l'oncle de Tom Sawyer. Pour Huck et Tom, c'est l'heure des retrouvailles. C'est aussi celle des projets imagin s pour rendre Jim sa libert .
Ich bin der eselhafteste Mensch, den ich je gekannt habe 1+2
Mark Twain
Aufbau Verlage GmbH
2014
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