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Mark Twain, the World, and Me

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817392833
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain, the World, and Me written by Susan K. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American literary studies Susan K. Harris retraced the journey of the literary icon as he made his way around the British Empire on his infamous 1895-1896 lecture tour. Part biography, part literary criticism, and part travel memoir, Harris' study offers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers while attempting to situate Mark Twain's social commentary within a contemporary worldview. As Harris makes her way through Australia, India, and South Africa-seeing for herself the people and places Twain experienced-she also undertakes a journey of self-exploration and what her relationship with Mark Twain means. After his disastrous investment in the Paige Compositor typesetting machine, Mark Twain found himself bankrupt. Determined to repay his debts, he undertook a thirteen-month lecture tour around the British Empire-visiting Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, Mauritius, and South Africa. After the tour, Twain published Following the Equator, a travelogue in which he recorded his observations and social commentary on the places he visited. Although Twain was generally known to criticize racism, bigotry, and imperialism, his financial situation meant he was willing to write to his audience's expectations in order to sell more books. This lead to the imbuement of Following the Equator with the racial and cultural biases of the era. Following the Equator went on to be a success, virtually propelling him out of debt, but now contemporary scholars and readers are left to make sense of Twain's often inconsistent observations, to figure out how to situate Twain's legacy in a new era. 'Mark Twain, the World, and Me' aims to do just that. More than 100 years after Twain's journey, Susan K. Harris follows him through Australia, India, and South America, tracing the themes and issues present in Following the Equator, addressing them head on, and using them as an occasion for comparing his era to our own. Her account covers a variety of topics, such as the conundrum that Hinduism presented to Protestant Americans of the 19th century, the clash of civilizations between Australian Aborigines and white settlers, the environmental devastation brought on by settler eradication policies, and more"--

Letters From The Earth

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Youcanprint
ISBN 13 : 8892658379
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Letters From The Earth written by Mark Twain and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271521
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain’s Book of Animals written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For those unaware—as I was until I read this book—that Mark Twain was one of America's early animal advocates, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's collection of his writings on animals will come as a revelation. Many of these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written, and it's wonderful to have them gathered in one place." —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save “A truly exhilarating work. Mark Twain's animal-friendly views would not be out of place today, and indeed, in certain respects, Twain is still ahead of us: claiming, correctly, that there are certain degraded practices that only humans inflict on one another and upon other animals. Fishkin has done a splendid job: I cannot remember reading something so consistently excellent."—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Face on Your Plate "Shelley Fisher Fishkin has given us the lifelong arc of the great man's antic, hilarious, and subtly profound explorations of the animal world, and she's guided us through it with her own trademark wit and acumen. Dogged if she hasn't." —Ron Powers, author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Mark Twain: A Life

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048648923X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Familiarity breeds contempt — and children." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "Heaven for climate. Hell for company." This attractive paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters, and autobiography.

Why We Took the Car

Author : Wolfgang Herrndorf
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545586364
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Why We Took the Car written by Wolfgang Herrndorf and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written, darkly funny coming-of-age story from an award-winning, bestselling German author making his American debut. Mike Klingenberg doesn't get why people think he's boring. Sure, he doesn't have many friends. (Okay, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he's never invited to parties - including the gorgeous Tatiana's party of the year.Andre Tschichatschow, aka Tschick (not even the teachers can pronounce his name), is new in school, and a whole different kind of unpopular. He always looks like he's just been in a fight, his clothes are tragic, and he never talks to anyone.But one day Tschick shows up at Mike's house out of the blue. Turns out he wasn't invited to Tatiana's party either, and he's ready to do something about it. Forget the popular kids: Together, Mike and Tschick are heading out on a road trip. No parents, no map, no destination. Will they get hopelessly lost in the middle of nowhere? Probably. Will meet some crazy people and get into serious trouble? Definitely. But will they ever be called boring again? Not a chance.

God's Arbiters

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199831629
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book God's Arbiters written by Susan K. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United States was divinely appointed to bring democracy--and with it, white Protestant culture--to the rest of the world. They were, in the words of U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge, "God's arbiters," a civilizing force with a righteous role to play on the world stage. Mining letters, speeches, textbooks, poems, political cartoons and other sources, Susan K. Harris examines the role of religious rhetoric and racial biases in the battle over annexation. She offers a provocative reading both of the debates' religious framework and of the evolution of Christian national identity within the U.S. The book brings to life the personalities who dominated the discussion, figures like the bellicose Beveridge and the segregationist Senator Benjamin Tillman. It also features voices from outside U.S. geopolitical boundaries that responded to the Americans' venture into global imperialism: among them England's "imperial" poet Rudyard Kipling, Nicaragua's poet/diplomat Rubén Darío, and the Philippines' revolutionary leaders Emilio Aguinaldo and Apolinario Mabini. At the center of this dramatis personae stands Mark Twain, an influential partisan who was, for many, the embodiment of America. Twain had supported the initial intervention but quickly changed his mind, arguing that the U.S. decision to annex the archipelago was a betrayal of the very principles the U.S. claimed to promote. Written with verve and animated by a wide range of archival research, God's Arbiters reveals the roots of current debates over textbook content, evangelical politics, and American exceptionalism-shining light on our own times as it recreates the culture surrounding America's global mission at the turn into the twentieth century.

Life As I Find It

Author : Charles Neider
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461702526
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Life As I Find It written by Charles Neider and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-02-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.

Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : M J F Books
ISBN 13 : 9781567315318
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls written by Mark Twain and published by M J F Books. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever compilation of Twain's wise and witty essays, sketches, and stories on the joys and rewards of misbehavior. With themes including "honesty is not always the best policy, ""the wicked are not always punished," and "virtue is often its only reward," this is a charming treasury that will warm the hearts of bad boys and girls (of any age)everywhere

Mark Twain's Letters

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain's Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Autobiography written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters from Hell

Author : Valdemar Adolph Thisted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Hell written by Valdemar Adolph Thisted and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain and Money

Author : Henry B. Wonham
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319441
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and Money written by Henry B. Wonham and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens's writing and personal life

Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817315225
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-10-22 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great writer's irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection. This volume is an annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain spanning his entire career. In these interviews, Twain discusses such topical issues as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humor, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers (Howells, Gorky, George Bernard Shaw, Tennyson, Longfellow, Kipling, Hawthorne, Dickens, Bret Harte, among others). These interviews are both oral performances in their own right and a new basis for evaluating contemporary responses to Twain's writings. Some of the parameters Gary Scharnhorst has followed in assembling the collection is to omit self-interviews, humorous sketches written by Twain in interview form, interviews judged by Twain scholars to be spurious, purported interviews that contain no direct quotations, and interviews that exist only in versions translated from the English, as there is no way to verify the accuracy of their retranslations back into English. Because the interviews are records of verbal conversations rather than texts written in Twain's hand, Scharnhorst has corrected errors in spelling and regularized punctuation. Four interviews here are new to scholarship; fewer than a fifth have ever been reprinted. Because Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews makes accessible, in one volume, source documents of immeasurable value to understanding one of America's most consequential writers, it will be valued by both academic and public libraries, Twain scholars and enthusiasts, and general readers of humor.

The Complete Works of Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9723 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 9723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain's 'The Complete Works of Mark Twain' is a classic collection encompassing the full breadth of Twain's literary genius, from enduring fiction to thought-provoking essays and travel narratives. Known for his witty humor and sharp social commentary, Twain's works offer a glimpse into 19th-century American life and culture. From the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to the satirical wit of 'The Innocents Abroad,' this comprehensive compilation showcases Twain's skill in capturing the essence of his era. Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens, drew inspiration from his own experiences as a riverboat pilot, journalist, and world traveler. His diverse background instilled in him a deep understanding of human nature, which he masterfully portrayed through his rich storytelling and memorable characters. Twain's works continue to resonate with readers of all ages, reflecting universal themes of friendship, identity, and justice. I highly recommend 'The Complete Works of Mark Twain' to anyone seeking a captivating journey through American literature. Twain's timeless tales and astute observations offer both entertainment and enlightenment, making this collection a must-read for literature enthusiasts and casual readers alike.

The Greatest Works of Mark Twain: 370+ Titles in One Edition (Illustrated)

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7665 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Works of Mark Twain: 370+ Titles in One Edition (Illustrated) written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 7665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain's 'The Greatest Works of Mark Twain: 370+ Titles in One Edition (Illustrated)' is a comprehensive collection that showcases the literary genius of one of America's most iconic writers. Known for his satirical wit and keen observations of human nature, Twain's works range from humorous anecdotes to thoughtful social commentary. This edition includes a vast array of Twain's works, from his beloved classics like 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' to lesser-known gems that highlight the breadth of his talent. The addition of illustrations enhances the reader's experience and brings Twain's timeless stories to life. Twain's writing style is engaging, accessible, and filled with profound insights that continue to resonate with readers today.

The Complete Travel Writings of Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Travel Writings of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 2245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection presents the complete travel writings of Mark Twain – including 'The Innocents Abroad', 'Roughing It', 'A Tramp Abroad', 'Following the Equator' and 'Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion' - presented in a single volume. Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe for San Francisco and New York newspapers as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad, published in 1869, is a caricature of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Mark Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past, and was as mocking about American manners as it was about European attitudes. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), the American author whose classic works of fiction are notable for their narrative voice, humour and social criticism.