Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Private investigators
ISBN : 9781613771242
Sherlock Holmes in America? Mark Twain a character in his own stories? Can it be true? Mark Twain breaks character with a collection of short mystery stories.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2011-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520270002
Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393324495
Chronicles the efforts of John Gray to marry off his daughter Mary to the heir of Deer Lick, Missouri's, wealthiest family, until the appearance of a stranger not only derails Gray's plans but also leads to murder.
Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493086146
Mark Twain is best known for his funny stories and novels about immortal boy heroes; however, his writings extend far into other fields. He wrote in a dizzying variety of genres, and much of his work explores themes well outside the realms of normal human experience. Although he is not generally known as a science fiction, fantasy, horror, or mystery author, he actually wrote a great deal in those fields. The 32 strange and macabre tales in the present volume—drawn mostly from his lesser-known works—offer a rarely seen side of him. Brought vividly to life by nearly 70 entirely original and realistic illustrations, these tales place characters in macabre and inexplicable situations, send them into remote dimensions of time and space, and have them commit terrible crimes, make incredible mistakes, and play fantastic tricks on one another. Readers will find this collection eye-opening, chilling, and thought-provoking ... but also full of laughs!
Author : Peter J. Heck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479428892
There was a ghastly murder in New York City, and Mark Twain's address was in the dead man's pocket. But even more alarming was that Twain had just received a message sent by anold friend from his riverboat days -- and the handwriting matched the note found on the corpse. So with his new secretary, Wentworth Cabot, Twain caught a steamboat bound for New Orleans. On board were all matter of people -- wealthy tourists and old river rats, literary amateurs and high-stakes gamblers . . . and a determined killer whose only goal was to bring Mark Twain's celebrated career to a stop!
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520246950
Here back in a paperback edition are the complete set of manuscripts left by Twain, which after his death would be assembled into a bowdlerized version and published as The Mysterious Stranger.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2020-03-21
Category :
ISBN :
The title story is Twain's darkly fantastic take on religion, reality, and the meaning of life. It takes place in 1590 in the remote Austrian village of Eseldorf, where few young boys greet an unexpected visitor: an angel named Satan. Among the six other stories included are "A Fable," "Hunting the Deceiful Turkey," and "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm."
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1904
Category : City and town life
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553901966
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”
