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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and Is Shakespeare Dead? written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain is misdirected and arrives at the wrong gate.
Author : Марк Твен
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504083988X
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven written by Марк Твен and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520939899
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Is He Dead? written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead? is finally available to the wide audience Mark Twain wished it to reach. Written in 1898 in Vienna as Twain emerged from one of the deepest depressions of his life, the play shows its author's superb gift for humor operating at its most energetic. The text of Is He Dead?, based on the manuscript in the Mark Twain Papers, appears here together with an illuminating essay by renowned Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin and with Barry Moser's original woodcut illustrations in a volume that will surely become a treasured addition to the Mark Twain legacy. Richly intermingling elements of burlesque, farce, and social satire with a wry look at the world market in art, Is He Dead? centers on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France, who stage the death of a friend to drive up the price of his paintings. In order to make this scheme succeed, the artists hatch some hilarious plots involving cross-dressing, a full-scale fake funeral, lovers' deceptions, and much more. Mark Twain was fascinated by the theater and made many attempts at playwriting, but this play is certainly his best. Is He Dead? may have been too "out there" for the Victorian 1890s, but today's readers will thoroughly enjoy Mark Twain's well-crafted dialogue, intriguing cast of characters, and above all, his characteristic ebullience and humor. In Shelley Fisher Fishkin's estimation, it is "a champagne cocktail of a play--not too dry, not too sweet, with just the right amount of bubbles and buzz."
Author : Minnie M. Brashear
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187557
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain written by Minnie M. Brashear and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguishes Mark Twain as, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “by far the greatest American writer.” Made up of short stories and excerpts from Twain’s principal works, this collection demonstrates Twain’s artistry in handling anecdotes, tales, description, and characterization; the fervency of his ethical convictions; his effective use of irony, satire, burlesque, and caricature; and his essential humanity. By arranging the materials in chronological order and weaving them together with critical commentary, the editors present the many facets of Mark Twain’s experience and his dynamic personality with greater continuity than in previous collections of Twain’s writings. Here is the optimism of the young Mark Twain responding to the rough and rugged vitality of the mid-nineteenth-century American scene, and the skepticism and pessimism of the older Mark Twain reacting to the American democratic experiment of the late nineteenth century.
Author : Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher : Historical Guides to American Authors
ISBN 13 : 9780195132939
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (329 download)
Download or read book A Historical Guide to Mark Twain written by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and published by Historical Guides to American Authors. This book was released on 2002 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is still one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. In this guide to Twain, his life and times and the historical context in which he operated Shelley Fisher Fishkin assembles original essays by leading scholars that describe and define the man.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520956516
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain’s career. It captures his authentic and unsuppressed voice, speaking clearly from the grave and brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions. The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain’s life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across the contemporary scene. He shares his views on writing and speaking, his preoccupation with money, and his contempt for the politics and politicians of his day. Affectionate and scathing by turns, his intractable curiosity and candor are everywhere on view. Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet E. Smith Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz and Leslie Diane Myrick
Author : Jerome Loving
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945492
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain written by Jerome Loving and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself into a westerner and finally a New Englander. This re-examination of Twain’s life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most complex view of the man and writer to date.
Author : Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Brockton Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomlinson-Humes Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of First and Other Editions of the Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens and of Lafcadio Hearn, the Property of the Tomlinson-Humes Company and Merle Johnson written by Tomlinson-Humes Company and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merle De Vore Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book First and Other Editions of the Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens "Mark Twain" and of Lafcadio Hearn written by Merle De Vore Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold H. Kolb
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761864210
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain written by Harold H. Kolb and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with a discussion of humor, and then demonstrates how Twain’s artistic strategies, his remarkable achievements, and even his philosophy were bound together in his conception of humor, and how this conception developed across a forty-five year career. Kolb shows that Twain is a writer whose lifelong mode of perception is essentially humorous, a writer who sees the world in the sharp clash of contrast, whose native language is exaggeration, and whose vision unravels and reorganizes our perceptions. Humor, in all its mercurial complexity, is at the center of Mark Twain’s talent, his successes, and his limitations. It is as a humorist—amiably comic, sharply satiric, grimly ironic, simultaneously humorous and serious—that he is best understood.
Author : Terry Mort
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461749239
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain on Travel written by Terry Mort and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to most as Mark Twain, was a quintessential American writer who spent much of his life traveling the world. He encountered colorful characters, cultures, and a variety of adventures along the way, and Mark Twain on Travel is a timeless collection of his writings on the subject. Excerpts included are from classics such as: The Innocents Abroad; A Tramp Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It; and Following the Equator.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101637684
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Mark Twain's great American novels—together in one volume. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” With an Introduction by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and an Afterword by Ishmael Reed
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714547557
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. This collection also includes another acclaimed novella, 'A Double-Barrelled Detective Story', a spoof of the mystery genre featuring Sherlock Holmes in the American West, as well as lesser-known narratives such as 'The Belated Russian Passport' and 'The Death Disk'. Together, these tales are a testament to Twain's inexhaustible gift for invention and his skills as a storyteller.
