Mark Twain

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At the turn of the twentieth century Minnie Maddern Fiske, a New York actress, socialite, and animal rights activist, wrote to Mark Twain with an unusual request: for Twain to write about the evils of bullfighting equal to that of his anti-vivisectionist story A Dog’s Tale. Twain responded with A Horse’s Tale, a comic animal tale that doubled as a frontier adventure and political diatribe. A Horse’s Tale concerns Soldier Boy, Buffalo Bill Cody’s favorite horse, as the protagonist and sometime narrator at a fictional frontier outpost with the U. S. Seventh Cavalry. When the general’s orphaned niece arrives, Buffalo Bill takes her under his wing and ultimately lends her Soldier Boy so that they may seek adventure together. Twain uses the friendship between the girl and the horse as the basis for his eventual indictment of the barbarism of Spanish bullfighting. Twain’s novella is unusual for its complex tone-combining a comic children’s story and a dark portrait of animal cruelty. Including the themes of transatlantic relations and frontier culture, Twain offers a fresh look into the world of Buffalo Bill Cody from the perspective of one of America’s most beloved authors. First published in 1906 in Harper’s Monthly and as a single volume the following year, A Horse’s Tale never again appeared in print except in anthologies of Twain’s work. This edition includes the full text of Twain’s original story, an introduction that situates the work in historical and biographical context, thorough annotations, and the addition of significant archival material related to Twain, Cody, and Fiske.

V knigu voshli chetyre povesti klassika amerikanskoj literatury Marka Tvena (1835-1910) - "Prikljuchenija Toma Sojera", "Prikljuchenija Geklberri Finna", "Tom Sojer za granitsej" i "Tom Sojer - syschik". Na russkij jazyk povesti pereveli Zinaida Nikolaevna Zhuravskaja (1867-1937) i Vladimir Germanovich Tan-Bogoraz (1865-1936). Kniga oformlena illjustratsijami frantsuzskogo khudozhnika Akhilla Sirou (1834-1904) i amerikanskikh khudozhnikov Artura Berdetta Frosta (1851-1928) i Deniela Kartera Birda (1850-1941).

Prodolzhenie zamechatelnykh "Prikljuchenij Toma Sojera" - istorija puteshestvija znamenitogo besprizornika Geklberri Finna i beglogo raba Dzhima na plotu po reke Missisipi. Opasnejshie prikljuchenija i novye znakomstva, odno udivitelnee drugogo, - pered glazami chitatelja prokhodit ves staryj amerikanskij jug so mnozhestvom koloritnykh personazhej, kotorykh tak zhivo i tochno opisal Mark Tven. Ljubimyj roman mnogikh pokolenij chitatelej izdan v klassicheskom perevode Niny Daruzes i s novymi illjustratsijami Anatolija Itkina. Dlja detej 8-12 let.

V knige rasskazyvaetsja o prodelkakh dvukh amerikanskikh malchishek. Pisatel s bolshim masterstvom risuet zhizn provintsialnogo gorodka v Amerike 40-kh godov KHIKh veka. Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta. Perevodchik: Chukovskij Kornej IvanovichRedaktor: Lomakina A. A. Khudozhnik: Mazurin German Alekseevich

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884. It is an incredible tale of a boy, Huckleberry Finn, from a Mississippi River town who narrates his adventures with Tom Sawyer and how he gets into trouble for helping a runaway slave Jim.

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved." -Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper (1881) The Prince and the Pauper-A Tale for Young People of All Ages (1881), by Mark Twain, set in 16th-century England, tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father, and Edward VI of England, son of King Henry VIII of England. In this tale, Twain satirizes social conventions and offers a critique of legal and moral injustices. This replica of the original edition of The Prince and the Pauper, containing 192 illustrations by Frank T. Merrill and John Harley, is a testament to the perennial quality of this classic.

"A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives-'NOBODY TO BLAME." -The Gilded Age, (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), is a two-volume satirical novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner describing late 19th-century Washington D. C. and its cast of characters of corrupt politicians and greedy "robber barons." This period of political corruption and ostentatious materialism became known as the Gilded Age, named after this book. The Gilded Age, offering insight in the problems of growing wealth inequality, resembling those of early 21st century, is a true classic with lessons for modern times.

Prototipom glavnogo geroja povesti Marka Tvena "Prikljuchenija Toma Sojera" stali srazu tri cheloveka - druzja detstva pisatelja. Navernoe, poetomu Tom Sojer poluchilsja takim zhivym, a ego prikljuchenija - takimi nastojaschimi. Kakoj malchishka ne mechtal otyskat klad i ne pytalsja otpravitsja v daljokoe puteshestvie?! Istorija Toma Sojera - eto ne tolko shalosti i prodelki, no i nastojaschaja druzhba, otvaga i slozhnyj moralnyj vybor. Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.

"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper &amp Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900). Some see this story "as a replay of the Garden of Eden story", and associate the corrupter of the town with Satan. It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions. It was so proud of it, and so anxious to insure its perpetuation, that it began to teach the principles of honest dealing to its babies in the cradle, and made the like teachings the staple of their culture thenceforward through all the years devoted to their education. Also, throughout the formative years temptations were kept out of the way of the young people, so that their honesty could have every chance to harden and solidify, and become a part of their very bone.

About Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 1 by Mark TwainMark Twain's Letters - Volume 1 give us the background to his works and show Twain to us as a complex personality with very pronounced weaknesses and strengths: his deep and constant love for his wife Livy, his great capacity for true and loyal friendship, his impetuosity, his restlessness, his extravagance, his occasional childishness, his impatience, moodiness, vanity, generosity, tolerance, honesty, enthusiasm. Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such documents, written by one whose life has become of interest to mankind at large, has a value quite aside from literature, in that it reflects in some degree at least the soul of the writer. The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammelled by literary conventions. On his first trip to England to gather material for a book and cement relations with his newly authorized English publishers, Samuel Clemens was astounded to find himself hailed everywhere as a literary lion. America's premier humorist had begun his long tenure as an international celebrity. Meanwhile, he was coming into his full power at home. The Innocents Abroad continued to produce impressive royalties and his new book, Roughing It, was enjoying great popularity. In newspaper columns he appeared regularly as public advocate and conscience, speaking on issues as disparate as safety at sea and political corruption. Clemens's personal life at this time was for the most part fulfilling, although saddened by the loss of his nineteen-month-old son, Langdon, who died of diphtheria. Life in the Nook Farm community of writers and progressive thinkers and activists was proving to be all the Clemenses had hoped for. The letters in this volume, more than half of them never before published, capture the events of these years with detailed intimacy.

Serija povestej o Tome Sojere i Geklberri Finne schitaetsja samym znachimym vkladom Marka Tvena (Semjuela Klemensa) v amerikanskuju literaturu. Bolee togo, eti sochinenija otnosjat k tak nazyvaemym Velikim amerikanskim romanam, ved oni ne tolko nasyscheny koloritom zhizni amerikanskogo Juga, no i napisany zhivym razgovornym jazykom. Po mneniju ekspertov, imenno s etikh povestej, napechatannykh v kontse XIX v., i nachalas samobytnaja amerikanskaja literatura. V dannoe izdanie vkljucheny ne tolko povesti, khorosho izvestnye otechestvennym chitateljam, no i menee shiroko rasprostranennye chasti serii: "Tom Sojer za granitsej" i "Tom Sojer - syschik". Eti tri povesti dany v perevode Zinaidy Nikolaevny Zhuravskoj. Ona rodilas v 1867 godu, uchilas v Orlovskoj gubernii i okonchila Aleksandrovskij institut blagorodnykh devits s Bolshoj zolotoj medalju. Zatem zhila i rabotala v Peterburge - perevodila s neskolkikh jazykov sochinenija evropejskikh i amerikanskikh pisatelej. Rabotaja nad tekstami, ona staralas s maksimalnoj tochnostju vosproizvodit rech avtora; ne sluchajno Zhuravskuju uzhe pri ee zhizni nazyvali "Korolevoj perevodov". Svoj zemnoj put ona okonchila v Parizhe v 1931 godu." Prikljuchenija Geklberri Finna" dany v perevode Vladimira Germanovicha Bogoraza (1865-1936). Pri rozhdenii on poluchil evrejskoe imja Natan, stavshee potom chastju ego literaturnogo psevdonima. On byl chelovekom raznostoronnikh darovanij - uchilsja v Peterburgskom universitete na juridicheskom fakultete, professionalno zanimalsja etnografiej. Kak pisatel Bogoraz debjutiroval v 1896 g. Potom nachalas i perevodcheskaja rabota. On byl znakom s realijami amerikanskoj zhizni ne ponaslyshke - neskolko let prozhil v SSHA. Illjustratsii k "Prikljuchenijam Toma Sojera" i "Prikljuchenijam Geklberri Finna" vypolnil frantsuzskij khudozhnik Akhill Sirou (1834-1904). On okonchil Shkolu izjaschnykh iskusstv v Parizhe, i za svoi velikolepnye raboty byl udostoen zvanija Rytsarja Pochetnogo legiona. Povest "Tom Sojer za granitsej" proilljustriroval amerikanskij khudozhnik Deniel Karter Bird, kotoryj stal v SSHA odnim iz osnovatelej organizatsii bojskautov. Kartinki k povesti "Tom Sojer - syschik" vypolneny amerikanskim grafikom Arturom Berdettom Frostom, kotoryj schitaetsja odnim iz predstavitelej "Zolotogo veka amerikanskoj illjustratsii"Perevodchik: Zhuravskaja Z. N., Tan-Bogoraz Vladimir GermanovichKhudozhnik: Sirou Akhill, Frost Artur B., Bird Deniel

Velikij amerikanskij pisatel Mark Tven khorosho izvesten i detjam, i ikh roditeljam, ego knigi - ot filosofskoj fantastiki do satiry i publitsistiki - s odinakovym udovolstviem chitajut ljudi vsekh vozrastov. Neistoschimyj shutnik, Tven vsegda byl gotov posmejatsja ne tolko nad okruzhajuschimi, no i nad soboj. Vsja ego zhizn byla neverojatno bogatoj na vesjolye istorii, golovokruzhitelnye avantjury i udivitelnye sobytija. V sbornik voshli satiricheskie rasskazy, polnye komicheskikh povorotov i tonkikh kalamburov. Eto ne prosto zabavnye novelly - v nikh zatronuty vazhnye zhiznennye voprosy, kotorye do sikh por volnujut umy mnogikh pisatelej i chitatelej. S prisuschim emu chuvstvom jumora Tven parodiruet samodovolnykh politikanov, napyschennykh bjurokratov i gazetchikov-nevezhd, vydajuschikh sebja za spetsialistov, protestuet protiv glupykh zapretov, litsemerija i "lzhi vo spasenie". V svoikh zarisovkakh on chasto byvaet sarkastichnym, no nikogda - zlym: vnimatelnyj chitatel bez truda razlichit za rjadami strochek ego iskrennjuju ulybku i uslyshit dobrodushnyj smekh. Kniga proilljustrirovana koloritnymi rabotami Anastasii Bazanovoj.

Satiricheskij roman Marka Tvena "Janki iz Konnektikuta pri dvore korolja Artura" - odno iz pervykh literaturnykh proizvedenij o puteshestvijakh vo vremeni. Roman, izdannyj v 1889 godu, povestvuet o prikljuchenijakh predpriimchivogo amerikantsa iz shtata Konnektikut kontsa XIX veka, neobjasnimym obrazom okazavshegosja v Anglii VI veka. Vo vremja draki geroj poluchaet udar lomom po golove i terjaet soznanie. Ochnuvshis, on obnaruzhivaet, chto perenjossja v epokhu korolja Artura i rytsarej Kruglogo Stola, - no ne otchaivaetsja. Neunyvajuschemu janki bez truda udajotsja zanjat mesto pri korolevskom dvore v kachestve volshebnika, potesniv starogo Merlina. Ispolzuja svoi znanija nauki, tekhniki i istorii, on nachinaet aktivno priobschat vse sloi srednevekovogo obschestva k blagam tsivilizatsii: elektrichestvu, telegrafu, gazetam i mnogomu drugomu. Udacha soputstvuet janki vo vsjom, odnako svoej "volshebnoj" dejatelnostju on nastraivaet protiv sebja tserkov i rytsarstvo, i te objavljajut emu vojnu... Kniga proilljustrirovana rabotami Sergeja Jarovogo

"Prikljuchenija Toma Sojera", odno iz samykh populjarnykh proizvedenij znamenitogo amerikanskogo pisatelja Marka Tvena, rasskazyvaet o zhizni v malenkom gorodke na Missisipi v 30-40-kh godax 19 veka. Kak priznavalsja sam avtor, bolshinstvo prikljuchenij, opisannykh v etoj knige, proiskhodilo na samom dele - s nim samim ili ego shkolnymi tovarischami. I khotja s tekh por proshlo uzhe pochti dva stoletija, prodelki Toma po-prezhnemu vyzyvajut ulybku i sochuvstvie, prichem ne tolko u junykh chitatelej. Nedarom Mark Tven zajavljal, chto svoej knigoj on khotel by napomnit vzroslym, kakimi oni byli kogda-to, chto dumali i chuvstvovali i kakie udivitelnye sobytija s nimi sluchalis. Kniga s klassicheskimi illjustratsijami Anatolija Itkina. Perevod Korneja Chukovskogo. Dlja detej 8-12 let.