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Author : Mark Twain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Stirring Times in Austria written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523465651
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Stirring Times in Austria (Annotated) written by Mark Twain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in Vienna in these closing days of 1897 one's blood gets no chance to stagnate. The atmosphere is brimful of political electricity. All conversation is political; every man is a battery, with brushes over-worn, and gives out blue sparks when you set him going on the common topic. Everybody has an opinion, and lets you have it frank and hot, and out of this multitude of counsel you get merely confusion and despair. For no one really understands this political situation, or can tell you what is going to be the outcome of it.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Stirring Times in Austria written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898 Austrian affairs were in turmoil. Franz-Josef was Emperor; but a Pole, Badeni, was head of government. Badeni tried to make the Czech language equal to the German, even in Government circles, but this was violently opposed. Twain describes these goings-on with his usual wit.
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Total Pages : 996 pages
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Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236224
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Short Works of Mark Twain written by Peter Messent and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001-08-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A delightfully informed path through the complexities of composition, publishing history, and the textual discontinuities that characterize so many of Twain's stories."—Journal of American Studies
Author : Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476690642
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain and the Critics, 1891-1910 written by Gary Scharnhorst and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty years of his life, Mark Twain was a controversial figure. He evolved from the "clown prince of American literature" into a biting social critic and political observer. While some pundits hailed him as a satirist equal to Cervantes and Jonathan Swift, others excoriated him as a "degenerate literary freak" who wielded a "scurrilous and venomous pen." This volume traces the evolution of Mark Twain's public image between 1891 and his death in 1910. It features hundreds of reviews and other critical notices in magazines and newspapers across the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. The selected samples represent the full range of critical opinion, whether favorable or hostile, about his late writings. Sources reflect geographical differences in Twain's reputation, such as the conflicted responses in the British colonies towards his anti-imperialism and the pious disapproval in the American heartland of his attacks on foreign missions.
Author : Ann M. Ryan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266657
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Cosmopolitan Twain written by Ann M. Ryan and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmopolitan Twain takes seriously Mark Twain's life as a citizen of urban landscapes: from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna to the suburban utopia of Hartford. Traditional readings of Mark Twain orient his life and work by distinctly rural markers such as the Mississippi River, the Wild West, and small-town America; yet, as this collection shows, Twain's sensibilities were equally formed in the urban centers of the world. These essays represent Twain both as a product of urban frontiers and as a prophet of American modernity, situating him squarely within the context of an evolving international and cosmopolitan community. As Twain traveled and lived in these locales, he acquired languages, costumes, poses, and politics that made him one of the first truly cosmopolitan world citizens. Beginning with New York City--where Twain spent more of his life than in Hannibal--we learn that his early experiences there fed his fascination with racial identity and economic privilege. While in St. Louis and New Orleans, Twain developed a strategic detachment that became a part of his cosmopolitan persona. His contact with bohemian writers in San Francisco excited his ambitions to become more than a humorist, while sojourns in Buffalo and Hartford marked Twain's uneasy accommodation to domesticity and cultural prominence. London finally liberated him from his narrowly constructed national identity, while Vienna allowed him to fully achieve his transnational voice. The volume ends by presenting Elmira, New York, as a complement, and something of a counterpart, to Twain's cosmopolitan life, creating a domestic retreat from the pace and complexity of an increasingly urban, modern America. In response to each of these cities, Twain generated writings that marked America's movement into the twentieth century and toward the darker realities that made possible this cosmopolitan state. Cosmopolitan Twain presents Twain's eventual descent into skepticism and despair not as a departure from his early values but rather as a dark awakening into the new terms of American identity, history, and moral authority. This collection reveals a writer who is decidedly less static than the iconic portrait that dominates popular culture. It offers a corrective to the familiar image of Twain as the nostalgic voice of America's rural past, presenting Twain as a citizen of modernity and a visionary of a global and cosmopolitan future.
Author : Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674736966
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Prophet of Innovation written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan Am, Gimbel’s, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland—all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. “Creative destruction,” he said, is the driving force of capitalism. Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as “the most sophisticated conservative” of the twentieth century, Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. His vision was stark: Nearly all businesses fail, victims of innovation by their competitors. Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril—to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter’s view, the general prosperity produced by the “capitalist engine” far outweighs the wreckage it leaves behind. During a tumultuous life spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and the early Cold War, Schumpeter reinvented himself many times. From boy wonder in turn-of-the-century Vienna to captivating Harvard professor, he was stalked by tragedy and haunted by the specter of his rival, John Maynard Keynes. By 1983—the centennial of the birth of both men—Forbes christened Schumpeter, not Keynes, the best navigator through the turbulent seas of globalization. Time has proved that assessment accurate. Prophet of Innovation is also the private story of a man rescued repeatedly by women who loved him and put his well-being above their own. Without them, he would likely have perished, so fierce were the conflicts between his reason and his emotions. Drawing on all of Schumpeter’s writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world’s greatest economist, lover, and horseman—and admitted to failure only with the horses.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Religious Novels of All Time written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 8329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the world's greatest novels and stories with religious theme and spiritual messages: Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) Paradise Lost (John Milton) The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) Zadig (Voltaire) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace) Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz) In His Steps (Charles M. Sheldon) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry Van Dyke) The Ball and the Cross (G. K. Chesterton) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Grand Inquisitor (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) The Holy War (John Bunyan) Callista: A Tale of the Third Century (John Henry Newman) Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome (James De Mille) The Temptation of St. Anthony (Gustave Flaubert) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain) Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson) The Child of the Dawn (Arthur Christopher Benson) Where Love is There God is Also (Leo Tolstoy) Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (John Henry Newman) The Uncalled (Paul Laurence Dunbar) The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford) The Revolt of the Angels (Anatole France) The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain) The Sorrows of Satan (Marie Corelli) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Lilith (George MacDonald) Grace (James Joyce) The Student (Anton Chekhov)
Author : Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299518
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Twain in His Own Time written by Gary Scharnhorst and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never one to suffer fools gladly, especially if they wore crinolines, Mark Twain lost as many friends as he made, and he targeted them all indiscriminately. The first major American writer born west of the Mississippi River, he enjoys a reputation unrivaled in American literary history, and from the beginning of his career he tried to control that reputation by fiercely protecting his public persona. Not a debunking account of Twain’s life but refreshingly immune from his relentless image making, Gary Scharnhorst’s Twain in His Own Time offers an anecdotal version of Twain’s life over which the master spin-doctor had virtually no control. The ninety-four recollections gathered in Twain in His Own Time form an unsanitized, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the iconic author. Opening with an interview with his mother that has never been reprinted, it includes memoirs by his daughters and by men who knew him when he was roughing it in Nevada and California, an interview with the pilot who taught him to navigate the Mississippi River, reminiscences from his illustrators E. M. Kemble and Dan Beard and two of his so-called adolescent angelfish, contributions from politicians and from such literary figures as Dan De Quille and George Bernard Shaw, and one of the most damning assessments of his character—by the author Frank Harris—ever published. Each entry is introduced by a brief explanation of its historical and cultural context; explanatory notes provide further information about people and places; and Scharnhorst’s introduction and chronology of Twain’s eventful life are comprehensive and detailed. Dozens of lively primary sources published incrementally over more than eighty years, most recorded after his death, illustrate the complexities of this flamboyant, outspoken personality in a way that no single biographer could.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitely classic Twain in his prime with loads of humor like this passage from title story: "All night long eighteen principle citizens did what their caste-brother Richards was doing at the same time-they put in their energies trying to remember what notable service it was that they had unconsciously done Barclay Goodson. And while they were at this work ... their wives put in the night spending the money, which was easy." Beyond the humor tho, there is great insight as is in this passage: "A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that is going to be found out." Book includes several other shorts including - My First Lie; The Esquimax Maiden's Romance; Is He Living or is He Dead? At the Appetite-Cure; My Boyhood Dreams and other rarities. The major story in the book is the novella length title tale about the corruption of an "incorruptible" town, which Twain suggested be read as a Garden of Eden type tale. -- Don Kidwell at Amazon.com et al.
Author : Marian Mazdra
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836831153
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Austria written by Marian Mazdra and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the geography, history, government, people, arts, foods, and other aspects of life in Austria.
Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book In defense of Harriet Shelley written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain: How to tell a story and other essays written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Miscellanies written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: How to tell a story and other essays written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 22 written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
