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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1984 Страниц: 679 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20091985-12-20
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«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.»
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The Prince and the Pauper
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112011-03-19
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«Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a delight satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London's filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled «Prince of Poverty» discovers that his private dreams have all the come true — while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous thieves. Originally written as a story for children, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a classic novel for adults as well — through its stinging attack on the ageless human folly of attempting to measure true worth by outer appearances.»
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Oxford Bookworms Library 1: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20132011-04-15
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Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost — much, much worse...
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Penguin Readers 3: Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog and Other Stories
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-17
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Mark Twain is one of America's most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain's stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will read about people's hopes and fears, happiness and terrible sadness — and wonderful practical jokes!
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 221 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092009-07-24
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From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality-base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20132011-04-15
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Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102010-10-13
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Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends — Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those places — and why is he afraid? Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked onto an island after a storm at sea. Are there other people? How will he survive? Will he be rescued? A classic tale of survival based on a true story.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102010-10-11
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Two babies are born on the same day in England. One boy is a prince and the other boy is from a very poor family. Ten years later, they change places for a game. But then the old king dies and they cannot change back. Will the poor boy be the new King of England?
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Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog and Other Stories (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Mark Twain is one of America’s most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain’s stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will read about people’s hopes and fears, happiness and terrible sadness—and wonderful practical jokes!
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Life on the Mississippi
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20092000-05-26
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«Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece «Huckleberry Finn», «Life on the Mississippi» is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, «Life on the Mississippi» established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America’s most profound chronicler of the human comedy.»
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20112012-07-18
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«`You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer», but that ain't no matter.' So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is fleeing from an even more brutal oppression. As they journey down the Mississippi their adventures address some of the most profound human conundrums: the prejudices of class, age, and colour are pitted against the qualities of hope, courage, and moral character. Enormously influential in the development of American literature, «Huckleberry Finn» remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark Twain's penetrating genius.»
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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'Tom was a glittering hero once more — the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.' In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial, Tom engages readers of all ages. He has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination. Alongside the charm and the excitement, Twain raises serious questions about community, race, and the past. Above all, the book invites discussion of the way in which childhood is invoked to counter the uncomfortable truths of the adult world.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of adventures on the river. They even meet a king! But is he real? Huck soon finds out the truth.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 71 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20112013-08-13
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A recounting of the humorous adventures of a young orphan boy living beside the great Mississippi River in 1844.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends —Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those places—and why is he afraid?
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he Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20102010-03-22
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For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought. The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. In his introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how A Connecticut Yankee develops from comedy to tragedy and so into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for new generations of readers. This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said 'he not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts'.
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Tom Sawyer Abroad: and Tom Sawyer, Detective
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2009 Страниц: 188 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20112010-12-30
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«In «Tom Sawyer Abroad», Tom, Huck and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon. Where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders. In «Tom Sawyer, Detective», Tom attempts to solve a murder.»
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 228 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092006-07-04
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Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: — A concise introduction that gives readers important background information — A chronology of the author's life and work — A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context — An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations — Detailed explanatory notes — Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work — Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction — A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
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