How to Tell a Story And Other Essays
How to Tell a Story And Other Essays Review
How to Tell a Story And Other Essays Overview
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race Review
Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race Overview
Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook–an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race–contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain’s personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain’s characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project.
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Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson (Library of America)
Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain’s works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation’s life: the place where civilization’s comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain’s youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in “Tom Sawyer”–”simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” said Twain–and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in “Life on the Mississippi” give way to the realism and often dark comedy of “Huckleberry Finn” and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, “Pudd’nhead Wilson.” Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece.
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Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain’s works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation’s life: the place where civilization’s comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain’s youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in “Tom Sawyer”–”simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” said Twain–and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in “Life on the Mississippi” give way to the realism and often dark comedy of “Huckleberry Finn” and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, “Pudd’nhead Wilson.” Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Publisher: Harper
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