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Mark Twain
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Novela póstuma de Mark Twain publicada en 1916 por el albacea literario del autor, Albert B. Paine, El forastero misterioso se sitúa en la vena satírica de su autor, y por lo tanto moral. La llegada durante la Edad Media a una población austriaca, dominada por el odio entre sus dos sacerdotes, de un extraño ángel que se hace llamar Satán, provoca el revuelo entre el vecindario. Y no sólo por su repertorio milagrero, sino por su énfasis en...
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"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." "When in doubt, tell the truth." "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." One of America's greatest storytellers, Samuel Clemens had something witty and wise...
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Travel down the Mississippi River on a raft with Tom Sawyer's cohort, Huckleberry Finn, as he rebels against "sivilization," and his friend, Jim, runs from slavery. This tale of freedom and friendship amidst the racism and corrupt values of the pre-Civil War South is, told through Huck's eyes as he and Jim navigate the perils of fog, frauds, and feuding families. Mark Twain has delighted generations with his unforgettable characters and scalding social...
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12 tales featuring boy detectives, from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Dective" to entries in the Mercer Boys, Ken Holt, Hal Keene, and Skippy Dare series, and lots more - over 1,400 pages of great reading! Here are:
THE MERCER BOYS AT WOODCREST, by Capwell Wyckoff
THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON BOX, by Bruce Campbell
THE AIR MYSTERY OF ISLE LA MOTTE, by E. J. Craine
THE LOST MINE OF THE AMAZON, by Hugh Lloyd
PRISONERS IN DEVIL'S BOG, by Hugh Lloyd
BOB...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
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Unabridged
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English
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"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
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The most prominent features of Mark Twain's works are his humor and satire. He pioneered the colloquialism of American novels with his fresh and humorous writing style and unadorned language. He made outstanding contributions to the development of American literature through his language styles in realistic novels and also had a profound impact on later writers.
