Mark Twain
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
"...Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Sawyer...về thực chất, đó là cuộc đấu tranh dai dẳng, kiên trì để thoát ra khỏi mọi ước lệ xã hội cùng những thói tục cổ hữu đang đè nặng trên vai người nông dân Mỹ thế kỷ XIX...Qua câu chuyện, nhà văn cũng chỉ trích...
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The title story of this collection of short gems by America's greatest humorist, published in 1900, tells of a man's attempt to gain revenge on the hypocritcal citizens of a supposedly "incorruptible" town. Other stories include "The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's" and "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
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Series
Everyman's library volume 44
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Beckey Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
47) James: a novel
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English
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Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Language
English
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"Upon the border of a remote and out-of-the-way village in south-western Missouri lived an old farmer named John Gray. . . ."In 1876, the same year The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, Mark Twain wrote a story for The Atlantic Monthly. He meant it as a "blind novelette"a challenge to other writers to submit their own ending of the story in a national competition. Twain asked his editor at The Atlantic to request submissions from leading authors...
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Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 3
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Joe gets a chance to prove himself as coach and discovers that it is not as easy as it seems, Wishbone is reminded of the tale in which a poor boy trades places with the crown prince of England, each one believing that the other has the easier life.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
I've struck it! Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. And I will give it away to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography. Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his Final (and Right) Plan for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion, to talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment, meant that his thoughts could...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Take a trip downriver with Huck Finn, and learn camping vocabulary such as "raft," "river," and "fishing line". Jennifer Adam's carefully curated quotations from the original text will have parents reading with the soft, twangy accent of Mark Twain.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jim Smiley was a betting man. He bet on horse races, dog fights, catfights, even how long it took a straddle bug to cross the border into Mexico. If there was a bet to be made, chances were the “uncommonly lucky” Smiley was behind it. So it seemed like easy money when a gullible stranger came to town and Smiley boasted to him that his pet frog, Dan'l Webster, could “outjump any frog in Calaveras County.” But while Smiley was out scouting for...