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The complete travel books of Mark Twain / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.; Neider, Charles,1915-ed.;
v. 1. The early works: The innocents abroad. Roughing it -- v. 2. The later works: A tramp abroad. Life on the Mississippi. Following the Equator.
© c1966-67., Doubleday,
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Humorous stories.; Historical fiction.; Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Boys;
© 2010., Vintage Classic,
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Pudd'nhead Wilson / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country lawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson, who unmasks the true identity of the two. Considered Twain's most courageous work, this short novel is one of the most sensitive treatments of slavery in American fiction.
Subjects: Slavery;
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D., where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Americans; Arthurian romances; Knights and knighthood; Kings and rulers; Time travel; Britons;
© 2001., Modern Library,
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The complete short stories of Mark Twain / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.; Neider, Charles,1915-2001.;
This 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?"The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A day at Niagara -- Legend of the Capitoline Venus -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A curious dream -- The facts in the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- A medieval romance -- My watch -- Political economy -- Science vs. luck -- The story of the good little boy -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- The story of the old ram -- Tom Quartz -- A trial -- The trials of Simon Erickson -- A true story -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- Some learned fables for good old boys and girls -- The canvasser's tale -- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale -- The man who put up at Gadsby's -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning -- What stumped the bluejays -- A curious experience -- The invalid's story -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- The stolen white elephant -- A burning brand -- A dying man's confession -- The professor's yarn -- A ghost story -- Luck -- Playing courier -- The Californian's tale -- The diary of Adam and Eve -- The Esquimau maiden's romance -- Is he living or is he dead? -- The £1,000,000 bank-note -- Cecil Rhodes and the shark -- The joke that made Ed's fortune -- A story without an end -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The death disk -- Two little tales -- The belated Russian passport -- A double-barreled detective story -- The five boons of life -- Was it heaven? Or hell? -- A dog's tale -- The $30,000 bequest -- A horse's tale -- Hunting the deceitful turkey -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- A fable -- The mysterious stranger.
Subjects: Short stories.;
© 2005., Bantam Books,
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-345).
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Male friendship; Fugitive slaves; Race relations; Boys;
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The complete short stories / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
Includes bibliographical references.Presents a volume of satirical short tales by the literary master that includes such classics as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Diary of Adam and Eve."
Subjects: Short stories, American.; Short stories.;
© 2012., Alfred A. Knopf,
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The complete humorous sketches and tales of Mark Twain / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.; Neider, Charles,1915-2001.;
"A collection of all 136 humorous sketches and tales that ... Mark Twain wrote as a young reporter for various newspapers and magazines and later saw fit to issue in book form ... More unvarnished than his short stories or novels, and more willing to indulge in fun for its own sake."--Back cover.
Subjects: Humorous stories, American.; Comedy sketches.;
© 1996., Da Capo Press,
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Mark Twain's America and Mark Twain at work / by De Voto, Bernard Augustine,1897-1955.; De Voto, Bernard Augustine,1897-1955.Mark Twain at work.;
Includes bibliographies.
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.;
© c1960., Houghton Mifflin,
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The prince and the pauper / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910,author.;
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
Subjects: Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553; Mistaken identity; Impostors and imposture; Poor children;
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