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Tales Speeches Essays and Sketches
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0140434178 |
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These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Tales Speeches Essays and Sketches
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781440673894 |
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These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Collected Tales Sketches Speeches Essays 1891 1910
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028416678 |
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A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Collected Tales Sketches Speeches and Essays
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1148 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020850403 |
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The Reverend Mark Twain
Author | : Joe B. Fulton |
Publsiher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814210246 |
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"I was made in His image," Mark Twain once said, "but have never been mistaken for Him." God may have made Mark Twain in His image, but Twain frequently remade himself by adopting divine personae as part of his literary burlesque. Readers were delighted, rather than fooled, when Twain adopted the image of religious vocation throughout his writing career: Theologian, Missionary, Priest, Preacher, Prophet, Saint, Brother Twain, Holy Samuel, the Bishop of New Jersey, and of course, the Reverend Mark Twain. Joe B. Fulton has not written a study of Samuel Langhorne Clemens's religious beliefs, but rather one about Twain's use of theological form and content in a number of his works-some well-known, others not so widely read. Twain adopted such religious personae to burlesque the religious literary genres associated with those vocations. He wrote catechisms, prophecies, psalms, and creeds, all in the theological tradition, but with a comic twist. Twain even wrote a burlesque life of Christ that has the son of God sporting blue jeans and cowboy boots. With his distinctive comic genius, Twain entered the religious dialogue of his time, employing the genres of belief as his vehicle for criticizing church and society. Twain's burlesques of religious form and content reveal a writer fully engaged with the religious ferment of his day. Works like The Innocents Abroad, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Roughing It, and What Is Man? are the productions of a writer skilled at adopting and adapting established literary and religious forms for his own purposes. Twain is sometimes viewed as a haphazard writer, but in The Reverend Mark Twain, Fulton demonstrates how carefully Twain studied established literary and theological genres to entertain-and criticize-his society. Book jacket.
Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom
Author | : James S. Leonard |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0822322978 |
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A collection of articles on Twain's work expressing a broad range of critical perspectives and pedagogical methods, intended to address race, gender and class issues in the classroom.
Mark Twain Collected Tales Sketches Speeches and Essays Vol 1 1852 1890 LOA 60
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Library of America Mark Twain |
Total Pages | : 1128 |
Release | : 1992-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028416314 |
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Offers a chronological collection of Twain's shorter writings.
Mark Twain Under Fire
Author | : Joe B. Fulton |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781640140349 |
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Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been under fire since the advent of his career.