Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and Is Shakespeare Dead?
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Elibron Classics
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2000-04
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ISBN : 9781402198885
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Elibron Classics
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2000-04
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ISBN : 9781402198885
Author : Mark Twain
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Fiction
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Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. But it was generally pretty one-sided, because I sailed by them the same as if they were standing still. An ordinary comet don't make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that sort-like Encke's and Halley's comets, for instance-it warn't anything but just a flash and a vanish, you see. You couldn't rightly call it a race. It was as if the comet was a gravel-train and I was a telegraph despatch. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, I used to flush a comet occasionally that was something like. We haven't got any such comets-ours don't begin. One night I was swinging along at a good round gait, everything taut and trim, and the wind in my favor-I judged I was going about a million miles a minute-it might have been more, it couldn't have been less-when I flushed a most uncommonly big one about three points off my starboard bow. By his stern lights I judged he was bearing about northeast-and-by-north-half-east. Well, it was so near my course that I wouldn't throw away the chance; so I fell off a point, steadied my helm, and went for him.
Author : MARK. TWAIN
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9781033443712
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101637684
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
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Page : 992 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Best books
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393020397
"All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography.
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1910
Category : American literature
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A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190285257
Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of the Historical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.
Author : Chicago Public Library
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1927
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