Mark Twain

Broschiertes Buch

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

Beschreibung

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is one of Mark Twain's most popular collections of essays. Containing advice on how to tell a story, with examples, criticism of a popular biography and some poorly written fiction, personal experience of the attempted reformation of public rights, the history and several versions of a story about a jumping frog, instances of telepathy, and more literary criticism, Twain's keen wit, caustic humor and incisive satire are never more strongly displayed. The contents of this English Rose edition are from the original edition: How to Tell a Story, In Defence of Harriet Shelley, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, Travelling with a Reformer, The Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story, Mental Telegraphy Again, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us and A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget. This English Rose book is a high quality, well formatted edition. English Rose love books and think that every one is special, so our editions will always be distinctive, professional and unique. Visit English Rose at www.englishrosebooks.co.uk and view our other titles and new releases.

Autor

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: English Rose Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 141g
• ISBN-13: 9781907960031
• ISBN-10: 1907960031
• Artikelnr.: 32441024