The 100 Greatest Quotes by Mark Twain
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PLEASE NOTE: reviews for another publisher's eBook have been linked to this title in error. This is the Complete Delphi Version.Features:* ALL 12 novels, annotated with concise introductions and featuring individual contents tables* beautifully presented with images relating to Twain's life and works* illustrated with images of how the books first... [Read More]
Mark Twain's writing has been wildly popular ever since he put pen to paper, and now its popularity has continued into the new century. Mark Twain was well known as a great American short-story writer as well as a novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, the well known and the lesser known, displays his best-kn... [Read More]
"I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark TwainSo Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect... [Read More]
Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy t... [Read More]
This ebook compiles Mark Twain's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court", "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "A Dog’s Tale" and "The Million Pound Bank Note". This edition has been professiona... [Read More]
Here are more than 1,800 quotations, organized from A-to-Z, from America's consummate author--Mark Twain. A must-have for all Twain collectors, The Quotable Mark Twain is filled with his opinions about the people he knew, the places he's been, and the books he wrote, as well as more far-ranging topics, such as writers, billiards, smoking, his famil... [Read More]
Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly's cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school picnics ... [Read More]
This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings — the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in... [Read More]
Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our national writers. This Library of America collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolve... [Read More]
An indispensable and provocative compilation of witty essays dealing with Biblical stories and their inconsistencies from America’s master satirist, Mark Twain.The Bible According to Mark Twain is a selection of essays spanning forty years of his writing career, which touch on and satirize stories and figures from the Bible. In his characteristic... [Read More]
THE COMPLETE WORKS! Novels, Short-Stories, Essays, Letters, The Library of Humor, Non-Fiction, Travel-Writing and SpeechesThe Ultimate Collection of Mark Twain - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume!Mark Twain is undoubtedly America's most famous literary icon, and the author of "Huckleberry Finn" - the original 'Great American Novel'. A hugely pro... [Read More]
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is The Complete Works of America's favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays, letters, speeches). Twain began his career writing ligh... [Read More]
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away―to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innov... [Read More]
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.""When in doubt, tell the truth.""Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dre... [Read More]
This delightful six-volume collection features many of Mark Twain's best-loved novels, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sayer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective; The Prince and the Pauper; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court and The American Claimant; and Puddn'head Wilson and The Mysterious Stra... [Read More]
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -- Mark TwainMark Twain (1835-1910) was the first American writer to capture the unique and colorful vernacular of his country's populace. Instead of striving to perfect any particular literary form, Twain strove to precisely imprint on paper the colloquial speech, mannerisms and experiences of the... [Read More]
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