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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 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,…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Some call this the greatest American novel ever written. It's the story of a runaway boy, Huck Finn, and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, as they ride a raft on the Mississippi River and encounter mishaps and adventure when they go ashore. Using the graphic novel format, Graphic Classics introduce children to many of the world's greatest literary works. The high quality illustrations complement…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 121 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 221) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Learn English Through Classic Literature: The Short Stories and Essays of Mark Twain, Second Edition, features: over 600 vocabulary words and idioms with definitions, helpful for TOEFL students working to learn English as a second language; vocabulary words highlighted in bold on one side of the page, facing the text on the other; grammatical information provided in context for easy…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Twain's two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited for a high-spirited and engaging tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Capturing tales of the American West told through wildly-humorous autobiographical essays by Mark Twain, this classic offers an insightful account of Twain's own life and experiences.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams... It has the marks of greatness in it style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy. From the Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of «The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 456 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 679) Аннотация: 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…