Sketches New and Old
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1903
Category : American essays
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1903
Category : American essays
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 1903
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 1875
Category : American literature
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Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385257638
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Christian Science
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Christian Science
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
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'Sketches New and Old' is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the "Great American Novel".
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
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ISBN : 9781521168240
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain by Mark Twain Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories--except for "The Case of George Fisher"--by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly; complaints about barbers and office bores; and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twain's hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. "What fascinates Twain," Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people "react to the things that happen to them." Twain "lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot; words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man"--or woman. "The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection" Smith writes, is one "told by a freed slave." The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.