Mark Twain

The classic novel by celebrated American author Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells of a teenage misfit accompanied by an escaping slave, Jim, as the two float down the Mississippi River by raft. As their journey unfolds, Huck and Jim encounter adventure, danger, and a deftly scribed cast of characters that are by turns both menacing and hilarious. This special edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is illustrated by comics industry star Eric Powell (The Goon, Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters), and presents the material as Twain intended.

Handlingen i Huckleberry Finn fortsetter der romanen Tom Sawyer slutter. Sawyers venn, "Huck" Finn, blir adoptert av en gammel tante for at han skal slippe unna livet på loffen. Hucks alkoholiserte far misliker sønnens mulighet til å oppnå et bedre liv enn ham selv, og Huck savner sine frie dager. En natt kidnapper faren Huck og låser ham inne skogsbrakka si. Huck lurer faren til å tro at han er død, og rømmer nedover Missisippi-elven, sammen med den svarte slaven Jim, som også er på flukt. Dette blir en oppdagelsesferd gjennom et landskap av nybyggere, småbyfolk, slaver, jegere, landstrykere og plantasjeeiere. Langs breddene ruver de store skogene og den urørte villmarken, og der føler Huck seg hjemme.

This antiquarian book contains Mark twain's "How to Tell a Story and Other Essays". It is a collection of essays wherein Twain describes how to write a story, criticises the stupidity of another author, defends the name of a dead woman, and attempts to defend people from insulting railroad conductors. The essays of this collection are: "How to Tell a Story", "The Wounded Soldier", "The Golden Arm", "Mental Telegraphy Again", and "The Invalid's Story". This collection is highly recommended for those with an interest in creative writing, and is not to be missed by fans of Twain's seminal work. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pseudonym, Mark Twain, was a seminal American writer and humourist. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1897.

This title includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902. It publishes, for the first time, the complete text of 'Villagers of 1840-3,' Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory. It features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri. Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn", and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly "Huck Finn" and "Tom Sawyer", come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.

Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death. This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, gathers writings from the full span of Mark Twain's career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for animals. What may surprise even longtime readers and fans is that Twain was an early and ardent animal welfare advocate, the most prominent American of his day to take up that cause. Edited and selected by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who has also supplied an introduction and afterword, Mark Twain's Book of Animals includes stories that are familiar along with those that are appearing in print for the first time.

Primarily a memoir of Twain's pre-Civil War days as a steamboat pilot, this engaging narrative recounts stories of the author's training, describes the science of navigating the river, and narrates a trip undertaken years later from St. Louis to New Orleans. This keepsake hardcover republication of the first edition features a dust jacket and more than 300 atmospheric black-and-white illustrations.