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Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain

When Mark Twain was seventeen he went back to the home of his boyhood resolved to become a pilot on the Mississippi. How he learnt the river he has told us in ‘Life on the Mississippi,’ wherein his adventures, his experiences, and his impressions while he was a cub-pilot are recorded with a combination of precise veracity and abundant humor which makes the earlier chapters of that marvelous book a most masterly fragment of autobiography. The life of a pilot was full of interest and excitement and opportunity, and what young Clemens saw and heard and divined during the years when he was going up and down the mighty river we may read … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The American Claimant – Mark Twain

The most widely known character in American fiction, Col. Mulberry Sellers, is again introduced to readers in an original and delightful romance, replete with Mark Twain’s whimsical humor.

The American Claimant

Format: Paperback

The American Claimant.

ISBN: 9783849674984.

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The characters in The American Claimant (from Wikipedia):

Colonel Mulberry Sellers: An eccentric white-headed old man who becomes the rightful heir to the Earl of Rossmore after the death of his relative, Simon Lathers. According to his wife, Sellers is a “scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure” who is well beloved for his generosity and approachability. Although many of his eccentric money-making schemes are failures, he occasionally “makes … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain

This classic of American fiction belongs on every virtual bookshelf. It is a charming romance of the life and times of Edward VI., the boy king of England, and is considered by many to be Mark Twain’s best work. Pronounced by high authorities one of the best child’s stories ever written.

The Prince and the Pauper

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The Prince and the Pauper.

ISBN: 9783849674977.

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Plot summary of The Prince and the Pauper (from Wikipedia):

Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court located in London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

History of the Big Bonanza – Mark Twain

One easily gets a surface-knowledge of any remote country, through the writings of travelers. The inner life of such a country is not very often presented to the reader. The outside of a strange house is interesting, but the people, the life, and the furniture inside, are far more so. Nevada is peculiarly a surface-known country, for no one has written of that land who had lived long there and made himself competent to furnish an inside view to the public. I think the present volume supplies this defect in an eminently satisfactory way. The writer of it has spent sixteen years in the heart of the silver-mining region, as one of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Old Times on the Mississippi – Mark Twain

When Mark Twain was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among his comrades in the village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. There were transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left the boys burning to become clowns; the first negro minstrel show that came to that section left them all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then they had a hope that if they lived and were good, God would permit them to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain

“A Tramp Abroad” is one of Mark Twain’s famous travel books, describing the events of a journey to Europe with his fictional friend Harris. They start their journey in Germany, travel through Switzerland and the Eastern part of France and touch cities in Northern Italy as well as some well-known mountains in the Alps. Twain’s humor is exceedingly fit to tell of many funny situations that the both of them encounter.

A Tramp Abroad

Format: Paperback

A Tramp Abroad.

ISBN: 9783849674823.

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Biography of Mark Twain (from Wikipedia):

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a book for readers of all ages. Most readers pick it up young and enjoy it, but too few come back to it later on, when its dark shadings and affectionate satire of small-town life might hit closer to home. The book sold slowly at first but has since become the archetypal comic novel of American childhood. It begins with several chapters of scene-setting episodic skylarking by Tom and his gang. All the grown-ups in the book fret about Tom’s future, fussing at him about his clothes and his manners, but also about his future, and whether this orphaned boy can ever grow up … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Roughing It – Mark Twain

“Roughing It” is another one of Mark Twain’s chronicles of his wandering years, this one being the prequel to “Innocents Abroad.” His adventures take place in the Wild West, Salt Lake City and even in Hawaii – among other places. He even enlists as a Confederate cavalryman for some time. The book is also a prolific example for Twain’s excellent sense of humour.

Roughing It

Format: Paperback

Roughing It.

ISBN: 9783849675301.

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Biography of Mark Twain (from Wikipedia):

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Innocents Abroad – Mark Twain

The character of American humor, and its want of resemblance to the humor of Kamtschatka and Patagonia,—will the reader forgive us if we fail to set down here the thoughts suggested by these fresh and apposite topics? Will he credit us with a self-denial proportioned to the vastness of Mr. Clements’s very amusing book, if we spare to state why he is so droll, or—which is as much to the purpose—why we do not know? This reticence will leave us very little to say by way of analysis; and, indeed, there is very little to say of “The Innocents Abroad” which is not of the most obvious and easy description. The idea of a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (and other sketches) – Mark Twain

James Russell Lowell had already pronounced the “Frog” story “the finest piece of humorous writing yet produced in America.” We are sure he would also have bestowed this word of praise upon the remaining stories that make up this small volume, though the title sketch is definitely the redeeming feature of the collection.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (and other sketches)

Format: Paperback

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (and other sketches).

ISBN: 9783849675288.

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Biography of Mark Twain (from Wikipedia):

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...