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Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors.This book brings some of best essays of Mark Twain, across a wide range of subjects, including literature, social commentary, humor and many more topics.Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Many of his most relevant works were published by Tacet Books.The book contains the following texts:- Introduction by Edmund Gosse- How to Tell a Story- Advice to Youth- Taming The Bicycle- At the Funeral- Advice To Little Girls- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County- Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences- Concerning Tobacco- The Bee

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.

e-artnow presents the Mark Twain Christmas collection with the greatest stories author dedicated to this most beloved holiday season, including his most famous novels and tales: Letter from Santa ClausThe Million Pound Bank NoteThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyCaptain Stormfields Visit to HeavenThe Stolen White ElephantThe Story of the Bad Little BoyMy Platonic SweetheartA Ghost StoryThe Five Boons of LifeA FableA Dogs TaleThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The War Prayer Mark Twain - Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the towns young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twains last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. Mark Twains work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joans page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, "Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France".De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arcs page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life - as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Contes memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.

Mark Twains Autobiography is a fascinating look into the life and times of one of Americas most iconic literary figures. Written in Twains signature witty and satirical style, the memoir offers valuable insights into the authors personal experiences, struggles, and triumphs. Twains candid and humorous account provides a unique perspective on the social, political, and cultural landscape of the 19th century America. With engaging storytelling and sharp observations, Twains Autobiography stands out as a literary masterpiece in its own right. It captures the essence of an era while reflecting on universal themes of humanity and identity. Readers will be captivated by Twains storytelling prowess and keen-eyed commentary. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in American literature, history, or simply enjoys a good tale that transcends time and space.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies" contains 4 Mark Twain Biographies in 1 book and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once hed passed his 70th year, that a lot of the material might be OK to publish before his departure. These chapters were published in serial form in the North American Review during 1906-1907. While much of the material consists of stories about the people, places and incidents of his long life, therere also several sections from his daughter. In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that includes such fascinating scenes as their meetings with former president Ulysses Grant who was then writing the classic autobiography that Twain would underwrite in the largest publishing deal until that time. But it is also notable for its affectionate descriptions of his friends family life during Howells many visits to the Twain residences in Hartford and Stormfield. Mark Twain A Biography and The Boys Life Of Mark Twain written by Albert Bigelow Paine, are an invaluable resource to better understand Twain, the stories behind his stories and his life with those he loved and with whom he worked. Table of Contents: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine The Boys Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Roughing It" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Based on Mark Twains 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 18611867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brothers diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twains early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer. Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Este ebook presenta "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es una novela de Mark Twain, publicada en 1876. Es el relato de unos meses en la vida de un chico huerfano que vive en Saint Petersburg, un pueblecito situado a orillas del Misisipi, al suroeste de Estados Unidos. La vida es tan placida que incluso puede resultar aburrida. Pero Tom Sawyer, un muchacho curioso y travieso, es capaz de sacar provecho a cualquier hecho cotidiano, como pintar una valla, o no tan cotidiano, como perseguir a un malvado asesino o ir en busca de un tesoro escondido en una cueva, acompañado de su inseparable amigo Huck. Mark Twain (1835 1910), fue un popular escritor, orador y humorista estadounidense. Escribio obras de gran exito como El principe y el mendigo o Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo, pero es conocido sobre todo por su novela Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer y su secuela Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn.

The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain - Fully entitled The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims Progress, Twains colorful travelogue is a compilation of the newspaper articles he wrote while on a cruise to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land with other American tourists in 1867. His account frequently uses humor to describe the people and places he visits, although this becomes highly satiric at times as Twain becomes frustrated with European profiteering, a pointless historical anecdote in Gibraltar, and the overly institutionalized nature of countries like Italy. Where he critiques, however, he also feels a strange reverence, as in the Canary Islands and the Holy Land. A more serious theme also flows through Twains experience. Twain sees the conflict between history and the modern world as he travels with his New World compatriots through the lands of ancient civilizations, ultimately discovering that you cant believe everything you read in travel guidebooks. This landmark work finds Twain searching for the American identity as it increasingly casts its shadow over the world of Old Europe.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Letters of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. These letters were arranged in six volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemenss literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. Table of Contents: Volume I Letters 1853-1866 Volume II Letters 1867-1875 Volume III Letters 1876-1885 Volume IV Letters 1886-1900 Volume V Letters 1901-1906 Volume VI Letters 1907-1910 Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Essays and Satires of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: How To Tell A Story And Other Essays; How To Tell A Story; The Wounded Soldier.; The Golden Arm.; Mental Telegraphy Again; The Invalids Story; A Salutation Speech From The Nineteenth Century To The Twentieth; The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Updated; To The Person Sitting In Darkness; Private History Of The "Jumping Frog" Story; Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences; Running For Governor; Stirring Times In Austria; Concerning The Jews; Comments On The Moro Massacre; Carl Schurz, Pilot; Taming The Bicycle; To My Missionary Critics; King Leopolds Soliloquy; The United States Government And The Congo State.; In Defense Of Harriet Shelley; Essays On Paul Bourget; What Is Man?; The Death Of Jean; The Turning-Point Of My Life; How To Make History Dates Stick; The Memorable Assassination; A Scrap Of Curious History; Switzerland, The Cradle Of Liberty; At The Shrine Of St. Wagner; William Dean Howells; English As She Is Taught; On Girls; A Simplified Alphabet; As Concerns Interpreting The Deity; Concerning Tobacco; The Bee; Is Shakespeare Dead?; The United States Of Lyncherdom; Letters From The Earth. Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Speeches of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In addition to being a great novelist, Mark Twain was one of the most popular public speakers of his day. This collection brings together in a single volume the complete collected speeches of Mark Twain which was first published in 1871. Table of Contents: The Story Of A Speech; Plymouth Rock And The Pilgrims; Compliments And Degrees; Books, Authors, And Hats; Dedication Speech; Die Schrecken Der Deutschen Sprache [The Horrors Of The German Language]; German For The Hungarians; A New German Word; Unconscious Plagiarism; The Weather; The Babies; Our Children And Great Discoveries; Educating Theatre-Goers; The Educational Theatre; Poets As Policemen; Puddnhead Wilson Dramatized; Daly Theatre; The Dress Of Civilized Woman; Dress Reform And Copyright; College Girls; Girls; The Ladies; Womans Press Club; Votes For Women; Woman-An Opinion; Advice To Girls; Taxes And Morals; Tammany And Croker; Municipal Corruption; Municipal Government; China And The Philippines; Theoretical Morals; Laymans Sermon; University Settlement Society; Public Education Association; Education And Citizenship; Courage; The Dinner To Mr. Choate; On Stanley And Livingstone; Henry M. Stanley; Dinner To Mr. Jerome; Henry Irving; Dinner To Hamilton W. Mabie; Introducing Nye And Riley; Dinner To Whitelaw Reid; Rogers And Railroads; The Old-Fashioned Printer; Society Of American Authors; Reading-Room Opening; Literature; Disappearance Of Literature; The New York Press Club Dinner; The Alphabet And Simplified Spelling; Spelling And Pictures; Books And Burglars; Authors Club; Booksellers; "Mark Twains First Appearance"; Morals And Memory; Queen Victoria; Joan Of Arc; Accident Insurance Etc.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Travel Writings of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is a complete collection of Mark Twains travel writings including The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator and Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - presented in a single volume. Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe for San Francisco and New York newspapers as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad, published in 1869, is a caricature of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Mark Twains fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past, and was as mocking about American manners as it was about European attitudes. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens (18351910), the American author whose classic works of fiction are notable for their narrative voice, humour and social criticism.

Este ebook presenta "Obras selectas de Mark Twain" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Tabla de contenidos: Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer El príncipe y el mendigo Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo Mark Twain (1835 1910), fue un periodista, escritor y humorista estadounidense. Llamado por William Faulkner "el padre de la literatura americana", Twain escribio mas de 500 obras, comenzando su carrera como tipografo, y viajando de una ciudad a otra y de imprenta a otra. Poco a poco se desarrollo como periodista, epoca en la que adopto el pseudonimo de Mark Twain, pero sus visiones criticas contra el racismo, el esclavismo y otros temas sociales conflictivos truncaron esta vocacion; fue mediante sus relatos y novelas con las que finalmente obtuvo reconocimiento, siendo conocidas hoy en dia sobre todo Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer (1976) y Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (1984), considerada esta ultima por muchos como "la gran novela americana".

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court illustrated Mark Twain - One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthurs Camelot. The Yankee vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isnt long before all hell breaks loose!Written in 1889, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is one of literatures first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twains later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.

Tom Canty is a poor boy, whose life will take a complete turn when he approaches the palace and crosses paths with Prince Edward. Thanks to their striking physical resemblance, the two will be able to exchange their identities, allowing the prince to know real life, and Tom, the luxury and sumptuousness of a world radically different from his own. The story takes place in London in the 16th century, during the reign of Henry VIII. Until they manage to return to their original identity, the two boys will go through innumerable adventures.

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain - A memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twains training as a steamboat pilot, as the cub (apprentice) of an experienced pilot, Horace E. Bixby.

Tom Sawyer es un huérfano que vive con su tía Polly. Y no es un niño modélico. Como cabecilla de la panda que forma con sus amigos Joe Harper y Huckleberry Finn, vive aventuras emocionantes jugando a los piratas en la Isla de Jackson, pescando, haciendo excursiones nocturnas o incluso simulando la muerte para asistir a su propio funeral. Pero todo se oscurece cuando Tom es testigo de un asesinato y el asesino decide eliminar al incomodo testigo.Mark Twain nos retrata a un heroe moderno que refleja ironicamente la America racista y supersticiosa de mediados del siglo XIX. Una novela dirigida a los niños, pero tambien a los adultos, para que no olviden las hazañas de la juventud.

Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with robbers, lions and fleas to see some of the worlds greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx.Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne esque adventure stories. Like in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, this story is told using the first person narrative voice of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain was greatly inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyles writings and Tom and Hucks relationship is by many compared to that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.Tom Sawyer Abroad is the third book in the series of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).-