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Mark Twain And The South

Author : Arthur G. Pettit
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148782
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain And The South written by Arthur G. Pettit and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.

The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn

Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481428403
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn by : Robert Burleigh

Download or read book The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn written by Robert Burleigh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, but now it’s time for youngins everywhere to get right acquainted with the man behind the pen. Mr. Mark Twain! An interesting character, he was...even if he did sometimes get all gussied up in linen suits and even if he did make it rich and live in a house with so many tiers and gazebos that it looked like a weddin’ cake. All that’s a little too proper and hog tied for our narrator, Huckleberry Finn, but no one is more right for the job of telling this picture book biography than Huck himself. (We’re so glad he would oblige.) And, he’ll tell you one thing—that Mr. Twain was a piece a work! Famous for his sense of humor and saying exactly what’s on his mind, a real satirist he was—perhaps America’s greatest. Ever. True to Huck’s voice, this picture book biography is a river boat ride into the life of a real American treasure.

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Author : Justin Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129312
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain written by Justin Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America’s “Gilded Age,” comes alive in Justin Kaplan’s extraordinary biography. With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual persona symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, and the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn. As Mr. Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes, and lived the extravagant life that Mark Twain despised. Kaplan effectively portrays the triumphant-tragic man whose achievements and failures, laughter and anger, reflect a crucial generation in our past as well as his own dark, divided, and remarkably contemporary spirit. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brilliantly conveys this towering literary figure who was himself a symbol of the peculiarly American conflict between moral scrutiny and the drive to succeed. Mr. Clemens lived the Gilded Life that Mark Twain despised. The merging and fragmenting of these and other identities, as the biography unfolds, results in a magnificent projection of the whole man; the great comic spirit; and the exuberant, tragic human being, who, his friend William Dean Howells said, was “sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”

The Family of Mark Twain

Author : Twain Mark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Family of Mark Twain written by Twain Mark and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Biographical Summary of Mark Twain.

The Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy)

Author : Barbara Kerley
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545125081
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy) written by Barbara Kerley and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.

Mark Twain's Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 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 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.

Mark My Words

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312143657
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Mark My Words written by Mark Twain and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a personal look at the man behind the writing through an amusing collection of his expressed opinions and thoughts on such topics as such as fellow writers, authors, editors, children's books, humor, and public speakers.

Who Was Mark Twain?

Author : April Jones Prince
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0448433192
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Who Was Mark Twain? written by April Jones Prince and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating life is captured candidly in this enjoyable biography.

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

Inventing Mark Twain

Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753804582
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Mark Twain written by Andrew Jay Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.

The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell

Author : Harold K. Bush
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350745
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell by : Harold K. Bush

Download or read book The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell written by Harold K. Bush and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell—a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut—rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that as in most things about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment. From the moment of their first encounter in 1868, a rapport was established. When Twain went to dinner at the Twichell home, he wrote to his future wife that he had “got up to go at 9.30 PM, & never sat down again—but [Twichell] said he was bound to have his talk out—& I was willing—& so I only left at 11.” This conversation continued, in various forms, for forty-two years—in both men’s houses, on Hartford streets, on Bermuda roads, and on Alpine trails. The dialogue between these two men—one an inimitable American literary figure, the other a man of deep perception who himself possessed both narrative skill and wit—has been much discussed by Twain biographers. But it has never been presented in this way before: as a record of their surviving correspondence; of the various turns of their decades-long exchanges; of what Twichell described in his journals as the “long full feast of talk” with his friend, whom he would always call “Mark.”

Mark Twain in Virginia City Nevada

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Nevada Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780913814789
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in Virginia City Nevada written by Mark Twain and published by Nevada Publications. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of chapters excerpted from Mark Twain's famous classic book 'Roughing it' with contemporary illustrations.

Mark Twain

Author : Hamlin Hill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226336476
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Hamlin Hill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain’s last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated by his literary executors Twain ended his life as a frustrated writer plagued by paranoia. He suffered personal tragedies, got involved in questionable business ventures, and was a demanding and controlling father and husband. As Mark Twain: God’s Fool demonstrates, the difficult circumstances of Twain’s personal life make his humorous output all the more surprising and admirable. “Ham[lin] Hill remains among the smartest, most honest, and most humane of Twain scholars—and . . . God’s Fool parades those qualities on every page.” Jeff Steinbrink, Franklin & Marshall College “Fills a great, long-standing need for a thoroughly researched book about Mark Twain’s twilight years. . . . Splendidly, grippingly written and excellently documented. . . . Likely to be a standard work for as long as anyone can foresee.” Choice

Advice to Little Girls

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592701292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Advice to Little Girls written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century American humorist, Mark Twain, offers alternatives to little girls who sass their teachers, hurl mud at their brothers, or covet their friends' expensive china dolls.

Mark Twain in China

Author : Selina Lai-Henderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804794758
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in China written by Selina Lai-Henderson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.

My Mark Twain

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book My Mark Twain written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of Howells' friendship with Mark Twain, followed by criticism of about a dozen of his major works (chiefly book reviews previously published in various periodicals).

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.