How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1898
Category :
ISBN :
Mark My Words
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780312143657
Book Description
Provides a personal look at the man behind the writing through an amusing collection of his expressed opinions and thoughts on such topics as such as fellow writers, authors, editors, children's books, humor, and public speakers.
Mark Twain Essays
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3986777164
Book Description
Mark Twain Essays Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and Jane only 15 years of age, she soon arried John. The family moved to Gainesboro, Tennessee where Jane gave birth to Orion Clemens. In the summer of 1827 the Clemenses relocated to Virginia where John purchased thousands of acres of land and opened a legal advice store.
Literary Essays
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019794043
Book Description
This collection of essays by Mark Twain showcases the author's wit, humor, and insight. From literary criticism to commentaries on travel and politics, Twain's essays are a delight to read. Whether you are a fan of Twain's fiction or simply enjoy good writing, this book is sure to entertain and enlighten. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Literary Essays
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American essays
ISBN :
Book Description
Literary Essays is a useful book even if it isn't the funniest thing ever--title essay "How to Tell a Story" is chock-full of good, solid advice for budding writers. In the literary line, "In Defence of Harriet Shelley" is a lengthy demolition of Prof. Edward Dowden's 1886 attempt at a biography of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Dowden laid all the blame for Shelley's contemptible excesses on Shelley's first wife, Harriet (a child bride aged 16). "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" is a rich chortle made richer by the fact that its seemingly hyperbolic charges are all perfectly true. Other selections include "Traveling with a Reformer," "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story," "Mental Telegraphy Again," "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us," and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget." Today's readers probably know less about Paul Bourget than they know of the poet Shelley, and care not at all about 19th-century authorial cat fights.
The Writings of Mark Twain: Literary essays
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Christian Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Boys
ISBN :
Book Description
Mark Twain A to Z
Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Mark Twain A to Z features more than 1,200 entries which provide detailed character analyses and plot summaries of all of Twain's works, thousands of precise chapter citations and cross-references to related subjects, and biographies of the people whom he knew and events that affected his life. 130+ illustrations.
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Celebrities
ISBN :
Book Description
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's Literary Resources
Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588385663
Book Description
Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences. Prior to Gribben's work, much of Twain's reading history was assumed lost, but through dogged searching Gribben was able to source much of Twain's library. Mark Twain's Literary Resources is a much-expanded examination of Twain's library and readings. Volume I included Gribben's reflections on the work involved in cataloging Twain's reading and analysis of Twain's influences and opinions. This volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain's literary history. Each work read or owned by Twain is listed, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America's greatest author.
