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Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

¿\Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section.\-The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888)Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays..

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Mark Twain's Autobiography - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

Mark Twain's Autobiography - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\Start (an autobiography) at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your mind meantime.\-Mark TwainMark Twain's Autobiography published posthumously in 1924, was the result of Mark Twain's writings between 1870 and 1909. Even though his intent was to have his..

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Roughing It - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

Roughing It - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\This book is merely a personal narrative and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation...Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter.\-Mark Twain (1872)Roughing It (1872) is Mark Twain's second travel book, after The Innocents Abroad (1869). It describes his journey from Missouri to Nevada,..

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A Tramp Abroad - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

A Tramp Abroad - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.\-Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880)A Tramp Abroad (1880), by Mark Twain, is about his travels with his friend Joseph Twichell through the German Black Forest, the Swiss Alps, and Italy. The storyteller, Twain, acts as a typical American tourist of the time touring Europe, believing that he understands the continent when in reality he doesn't at all.This jacketed hardcover replica of the original 1880..

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Following the Equator - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

Following the Equator - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.\-Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)Following the Equator-A Journey Around the World (1889), a travel book about Mark Twain's lecture tour in the British Empire, undertaken late in his life to repay his debts after becoming nearly broke. This book describes Twain's fascinating experiences in Australia, India, South Africa, and elsewhere. It offers Twain's quintessential mix of irony, humor, and social criticism of white man's..

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Europe and Elsewhere - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

Europe and Elsewhere - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\In like manner the American author who has chosen to call himself Mark Twain has attained to an immense popularity because the qualities he possesses in a high degree appeal to so many and so widely varied publics.\-Brander Matthews (1899)Europe and Elsewhere is a collection of essays by Mark Twain that was edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, Twain's literary estate agent and biographer, and published posthumously in 1923.This jacketed hardcover replica of the original edition of Europe and Elsewhere,..

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The Innocents Abroad - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

The Innocents Abroad - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who travelled in those countries before him.\-Mark Twain (1869)The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869), is a humorous travel book based on Mark Twain's letters about his 1867 voyage on the steamboat \Quaker City\..

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.\-Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (1896) was Mark Twain's last completed novel, offering a portrait of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the French heroine and a national symbol of France. At the age of seventeen, she led a French army to defeat the English during the Hundred Years' War. In 1430, she was captured by a group of French nobles allied with the English and was burned..

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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.\-Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894), one of Mark Twain's most entertaining, funny, but also bitter works, takes place during the antebellum in the fictional town of Dawson's Landing on the Mississippi River. It tells the tale of switching identities-one a baby boy born into slavery and..

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The Gilded Age - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

The Gilded Age - Bog af Mark Twain - Hardback

\A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives-'NOBODY TO BLAME.\ -The Gilded Age, (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), is a two-volume satirical novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner describing late 19th-century Washington D.C. and its cast of characters of corrupt politicians and greedy \robber barons.\ This period of political corruption..

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