Mark Twain

eBook, ePUB

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (eBook, ePUB)

PergamonMedia

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: . Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . The Prince and the Pauper . A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court . Life on the Mississippi . The Innocents Abroad . Roughing It . Eve's Diary, Complete . Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World . The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories . A Tramp Abroad . Sketches New and Old . Mark Twain's Speeches . The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson . How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays . The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today and Charles Dudley Warner . A Dog's Tale . The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume . Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters to .: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors . The $, Bequest, and Other Stories . Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) . Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences . What Is Man? and Other Essays . The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg . A Horse's Tale . Short Stories for English Courses . The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories . The Works Of Mark Twain . On the Decay of the Art of Lying . Christian Science . Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven . Tom Sawyer Abroad . A Double Barrelled Detective Story . Tom Sawyer, Detective . The Stolen White Elephant . The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . Is Shakespeare Dead? . Chapters from My Autobiography . The Awful German Language . Extracts from Adam's Diary, translated from the original ms. . The Boy Scouts Book of Stories . etc.

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Autor

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, 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." Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After an apprenticeship with a printer, Twain worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it", too. He died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PergamonMedia
• Seitenzahl: 971
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783956702198
• Artikelnr.: 42545690