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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends —Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those places—and why is he afraid?
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he Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20102010-03-22
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For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought. The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. In his introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how A Connecticut Yankee develops from comedy to tragedy and so into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for new generations of readers. This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said 'he not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts'.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences. This volume also includes two other late works 'Those Extraordinary Twins' and 'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Barron's Ed Издательство: Barron's Ed Год: 2008 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102010-10-11
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Some call this the greatest American novel ever written. It's the story of a runaway boy, Huck Finn, and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, as they ride a raft on the Mississippi River and encounter mishaps and adventure when they go ashore. Using the graphic novel format, Graphic Classics introduce children to many of the world's greatest literary works. The high quality illustrations complement narratives that are paced to catch and hold young reader's interest. In addition to its story, each Graphic Classic features a thumbnail biography of its author's life, a list of his or her important works, a time-line of historic events that helped inspire the story's conception, general notes, and an index. Both primary and secondary school teachers can use these books to introduce students to a representative selection of our culture's great literary works. Many young readers who are hesitant to delve into the original books will find the graphic novel format an appealing first step toward developing good reading habits. Graphic Classics are available in both paperback and hardcover editions.
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Tom Sawyer Abroad: and Tom Sawyer, Detective
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2009 Страниц: 188 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20112010-12-30
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In «Tom Sawyer Abroad», Tom, Huck and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon. Where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders. In «Tom Sawyer, Detective», Tom attempts to solve a murder.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 228 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092006-07-04
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Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: — A concise introduction that gives readers important background information — A chronology of the author's life and work — A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context — An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations — Detailed explanatory notes — Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work — Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction — A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
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Roughing It
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092004-06-21
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Capturing tales of the American West told through wildly-humorous autobiographical essays by Mark Twain, this classic offers an insightful account of Twain's own life and experiences.
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The Innocents Abroad
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20122013-02-16
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'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party'? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World — to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the 'Old Masters'. He responded with wonder and amazement, but also with exasperation, irritation, disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour, more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.
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Learn English Through Classic Literature: The Short Stories and Essays of Mark Twain
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Kaplan Publishing Издательство: Kaplan Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092007-12-13
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Learn English Through Classic Literature: The Short Stories and Essays of Mark Twain, Second Edition, features: over 600 vocabulary words and idioms with definitions, helpful for TOEFL students working to learn English as a second language; vocabulary words highlighted in bold on one side of the page, facing the text on the other; grammatical information provided in context for easy understanding; and, a diverse selection of works for variety, entertainment, and learning.
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Autobiography of Mark Twain
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092002-10-20
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Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams... It has the marks of greatness in it style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy. From the Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story which includes sixteen pages of photos with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he free and frank and unembarrassed in the recounting of his life and his experiences. Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.' Set in 16-th Century England and following the lives of two young boys, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic and timeless tale. Tom Canty, the lowly pauper is almost identical in looks to Edward Tudor, a prince. Unbeknownst to those around them, the boys strike up an unlikely friendship and when they swop clothing, they realise they could easily pass for one another. When the Prince's father dies, some of the more underhand court officials persuade the pauper to act as the Prince in order to reap the benefits of the 'mistake'. The Prince and the Pauper is a tale of friendship and growing up and one of Mark Twain's most famous works.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing — namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.' An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt and anxiety. A 'coming of age' tale, it is through Tom's adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirises the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy's journey into adulthood.
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