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A Different Kind of Humor. The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th,century and early 20th,century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O. Henry. These stories aren't humorous in the sense of our modern understanding, they present a different kind of humor like jokes about men who don't wear hats and ridiculous notions about the African-Americans and about women....
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). He is perhaps best remembered for his sharp wit and cutting satire, which manifested in both his speech and written works. "The American Satirist" contains a collection of some of Twain's...
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Famed author's plain-spoken words - recorded as character sketches, essays, diary entries, letters and more - recall his boisterous boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, life as a riverboat pilot, as a young adult in rough Nevada mining towns, years spent as an author, plus somber passages noting the death of his wife and their three children.
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American humorist and literary master Mark Twain takes on tough issues like slavery, race, and the ugliness that can lurk beneath the surface of rural life in this novel. An interwoven tale of three families whose fates are thrown together in the aftermath of a murder, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of Twain's more serious works, although it is told with the same love of quirky misfits and wonderful observations that enliven books
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Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one, who has read it will ever forget.
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....
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A la hora de rememorar a su hija fallecida, Twain acaba hablándonos de las personas que vivían en la casa. En especial es muy interesante el retrato del "mayordomo" George, personaje de color, que se las sabe todas. Ídolo de los niños, su figura constituye una aguda reflexión sobre el papel de los afroamericanos en una familia blanca.
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Although best known for his novels, Mark Twain was a prolific writer of short stories, many of which involved elements of science fiction-and this compilation highlights his finest works of speculative fiction. Twain applies his wit and imagination to the spinning of tales about mental telepathy, instantaneous communication, alternative histories, and utopian worlds. The collection begins with Twain's first science fiction story, an 1862 piece entitled...
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The Innocents Abroad - Volume 02 by Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the bestselling of Twain's works during his lifetime and...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Extracts from Adam's Diary, translated from the original ms" by Mark Twain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
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Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 4 (1886-1900)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry...
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Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
Mark Twain...
On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.
On truth and lies: many when they come to...
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CUANDO SE HA ELIMINADO LO IMPOSIBLE...
Aunque menos conocida que su hermana mayor Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer, esta novela corta es una muestra perfecta del relampagueante talento narrativo de Mark Twain. De ritmo vivaz, peripecia fácil, personajes rápidamemente delineados y trama adornada por el habitual humor socarrón de Twain, Tom Sawyer detective es un policiaco clásico de factura impecable.
Influida sin duda por la obra de Conan Doyle, en...
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Puddn'head Wilson has in recent years been reassessed as one of Mark Twain's very best, most daring and innovative works. Roxanne who is certainly one of Twain's most colourful characters, is a nearly-white slave; she gives birth to a son whose father is a Virginian gentleman and she also brings up Tom, the son of Percy Driscoll a prosperous slave owner. The two boys are the same age and extremely similar in appearance. Child swapping, cross-dressing,...
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In this short 1904 work, from late in his career, Mark Twain imagines how Adam was introduced to Eve. "This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this, I am not used to company..." Twain also published a companion volume, Eve's Diary.
97) Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
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Revered as one of America's greatest humorists and author of the "Great American Novel" (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), the words of Samuel Langhorne Clemens-more commonly known as Mark Twain-resonate as strongly today as they did when he wrote them more than a century ago. A close friend of Nikola Tesla and heralded by William Faulkner as "the father of American literature," Twain's wit, wisdom, and influence continues through the present day.
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"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is one of the most famous adventure novels by Mark Twain and one of the first novels, narrative of travels through time. Mark Twain created this novel, exhibiting his legendary and signature sense of humour and talent of a narrator, which has made him immortal.