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  • PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC
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    PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC
    MARK TWAIN
    A novel of the life of the defender of medieval France by the celebrated author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She saved France when she was fourteen . . . She was burned at the stake for her efforts . . . Meet the girl who captured Mark Twain’s heart. A forgotten masterpiece from one of America’s greatest authors—and the last full-length novel he ever wrote—Joan of Arc fol...

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  • TOM SAWYERS NEUE ABENTEUER
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    TOM SAWYERS NEUE ABENTEUER
    MARK TWAIN
    Auszug: "War nun Tom Sawyer zufrieden nach all seinen Abenteuern? Ich meine die Abenteuer auf dem Fluß, als wir den Nigger Jim frei machten und Tom den Schuß ins Bein kriegte. Nein, er war nicht zufrieden! Es fraß an ihm, er wollte nur noch mehr. Ja, als wir drei auf dem Fluß zurückkamen von unserer langen Reise, in voller Glorie – so kann man wohl sagen – und als das Städtchen...

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  • FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
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    FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
    MARK TWAIN
    Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Throughout the novel, Twain uses the opportunity of visiting the various locations on his tour to espouse "perceptive descriptions and discussions of people, climate, flora and fauna, indigenous cultures, religion, customs, ...

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  • PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC VOL I & VOL II
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    PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC VOL I & VOL II
    MARK TWAIN
    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes. The novel is...

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  • THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
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    THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
    MARK TWAIN
    The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although the first sentence of the s...

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  • A TRAMP ABROAD, COMPLETE
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    A TRAMP ABROAD, COMPLETE
    MARK TWAIN
    A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey...

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  • THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS
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    THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS
    MARK TWAIN
    Twain originally envisioned the characters of Luigi and Angelo Capello as conjoined twins, modeled after the late-19th century Italian conjoined twins Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci. He planned for them to be the central characters of a novel to be titled Those Extraordinary Twins. During the writing process, however, Twain realized that secondary characters such as Pudd'nhead Wils...

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  • THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD’NHEAD WILSON
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    THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD’NHEAD WILSON
    MARK TWAIN
    Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role. ...

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  • A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
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    A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
    MARK TWAIN
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and sp...

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  • LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
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    LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
    MARK TWAIN
    Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Saint Paul many years after the war. ...

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  • THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
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    THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
    MARK TWAIN
    The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States.[1] The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his...

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  • A DOG'S TALE & EVE'S DIARY
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    A DOG'S TALE & EVE'S DIARY
    MARK TWAIN
    A Dog's Tale is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. The book is told from the standpoint of a poor household pet, a dog self-described by the first sentence of the story: "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian." The story begins with a description of the dog's life as a pu...

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  • CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
    MARK TWAIN
    Christian Science is a 1907 book by the American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910). The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). Twain...

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  • TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE
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    TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE
    MARK TWAIN
    Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person na...

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  • TOM SAWYER ABROAD
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    TOM SAWYER ABROAD
    MARK TWAIN
    Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids an...

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  • WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER STORIES
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    WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER STORIES
    MARK TWAIN
    What Is Man? is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins "what is man, that you are mindful of him...". It involves ideas of determinism and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserts that the human being is ...

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  • THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ AND OTHER STORIES
    MARK TWAIN
    Excerpt: "It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One could look long distances down them and see nothing but a dead-white emptiness, with silence to match. Of course I do not mean that you could see the silence—no...

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  • AUF DEM MISSISSIPPI NACH DEM FERNEN WESTEN
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    AUF DEM MISSISSIPPI NACH DEM FERNEN WESTEN
    MARK TWAIN
    Mark Twain (bürgerlich Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835- 1910) ist einer der wichtigsten Schriftsteller der USA. Er ist vor allem für seine Bücher über Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn bekannt, berüchtigt sind seine humoristische und scharfzüngige Art, mit der er u. A. die amerikanische Gesellschaft kritisierte und die deutsche Sprache analysierte. "Leben auf dem Mississippi", der...

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  • MARK TWAIN'S SPEECHES
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    MARK TWAIN'S SPEECHES
    MARK TWAIN
    American novelist and humorist Mark Twain was a captivating public speaker, and this affordable volume brings together a generous selection of his best speeches. Contents include his famous 70th birthday address, delivered at a 1905 gala; his classic oration on "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims"; and the perennial favorite, "Horrors of the German Language." ...

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  • ABENTEUER UND FAHRTEN DES HUCKLEBERRY FINN ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
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    ABENTEUER UND FAHRTEN DES HUCKLEBERRY FINN ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
    MARK TWAIN
    Synopsis: Die Romane Tom Sawyers Abenteuer und Streiche und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer und Fahrten von Mark Twain zählen zu den Klassikern der Jugendliteratur. Tom Sawyer als Detektiv ist eine Fortsetzung. Tom Sawyers Abenteuer und Streiche: Zur Inhalt - Der Waisenjunge Tom lebt bei seiner Tante Polly, zusammen mit seinem Halbbruder Sid. Tom hingegen schwänzt gern die Schule, ...

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  • ROUGHING IT
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    ROUGHING IT
    MARK TWAIN
    Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869). Roughing It is dedicated to Twain's mining companion Calvin H. Higbie, later a civil engineer who died in 1914. The book follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West d...

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  • SKIZZENBUCH
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    SKIZZENBUCH
    MARK TWAIN
    Der amerikanische Schriftsteller Mark Twain (1835-1910) hieß bürgerlich eigentlich Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Zwischen 1859 und 1861 arbeitete er als Schiffslotse auf dem Mississippi. Aus dieser Zeit leitet sich sein Pseudonym her, dass in der Seemannssprache "2 Faden Wassertiefe" bedeutet. Seit 1865 als Schriftsteller tätig, wurde er mit humoristischen Alltagsszenen und Reisebe...

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  • HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHER ESSAYS
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    HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHER ESSAYS
    MARK TWAIN
    How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897 is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them, he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow author, defends the virtue of a dead woman, and tries to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors. The essays contained include How to Tell a Story, The Wounded Soldier, The Golden Arm, Mental Telegraphy...

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  • DIE ABENTEUER DES HUCKLEBERRY FINN
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    DIE ABENTEUER DES HUCKLEBERRY FINN
    MARK TWAIN
    Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn (im Original Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) ist der erfolgreichste Roman von Mark Twain und gilt als Schlüsselwerk der US-amerikanischen Literatur. Erzähler ist Huck Finn selbst. Mark Twain simuliert die Perspektive und die Sprache eines Jungen, der seiner Zeit und seiner Umwelt verhaftet ist, sie aber auch in Frage stellt. Der Roman beginnt ...

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  • GESAMMELTE WERKE
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    GESAMMELTE WERKE
    MARK TWAIN
    Mark Twain war weit mehr als der Erfinder von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn. Was der vielgereiste amerikanische Schriftsteller sah und erlebte, fasste er in pointierte und höchst witzige Berichte und Erzählungen; Deutschland hatte es ihm dabei auf besondere Weise angetan. Seine unterhaltsamsten Werke für erwachsene Leser versammelt dieser schmucke Band: ‘Reise um die Welt’, ‘...

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  • MOMENTS WITH MARK TWAIN
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    MOMENTS WITH MARK TWAIN
    MARK TWAIN
    Excerpt: "“Moral Statistician.”—I don’t want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man’s health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years’ indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; ...

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  • THE £1,000,000 BANK-NOTE, AND OTHER NEW STORIES
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    THE £1,000,000 BANK-NOTE, AND OTHER NEW STORIES
    MARK TWAIN
    The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is an 1893 collection of short stories by American writer Mark Twain. The collection was published in 1893, in a disastrous decade for the United States, a time marked by doubt and waning optimism, rapid immigration, labor problems, and the rise of political violence and social protest. It was also a difficult time for Twain person...

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  • MOMENTS WITH MARK TWAIN
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    MOMENTS WITH MARK TWAIN
    MARK TWAIN
    Mark Twain was one of America’s great writers. No American writer has ever had as lasting an impact of literature as he did. Moments with Mark Twain is delightful book full of excerpts and quotes from his work. A must have for any Mark Twain collection Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.–William Faulkner ...

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  • TOM SAWYER ABROAD
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    TOM SAWYER ABROAD
    MARK TWAIN
    Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with ...

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  • TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
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    TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
    MARK TWAIN
    Here is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series. Tom and Huck are once again in the thick of things, this time investigating an unlikely murder case. "Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts-even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transf...

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