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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
No weather will be found in this book. This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
he Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger,...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.
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Author: Twain, Mark, Shukeylo, AnnaSummary:
In perhaps the most satirical children’s book of all time, Mark Twain dishes out outrageous, witty, and practical advice for girls with ease. Twain advises restraint for small offences, explains...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble. But when Huck Finn appears on the...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
When Mark Twain's daughter Susie wrote a letter to Santa Claus, her father wrote back, signing Santa's name. Charming and heartwarming, this version of the short letter was recorded as part of...
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.