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The Oxford Mark Twain Full Set
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Oxford Mark Twain |
Total Pages | : 14176 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 019973349X |
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Presents facsimile first editions of Twain's works that include all original illustrations. Each volume contains introductions by literary heavyweights including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley, among others.
The Prince and the Pauper
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Boys |
ISBN | : 019973349X |
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The Prince of Wales and a poor boy trade places.
The Oxford Mark Twain
Author | : Mark Twain,Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 14176 |
Release | : 1997-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0195114469 |
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The twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain is a major literary event. In addition to gathering together a superb collection of Twain's works, editor Shelley Fisher Fishkin has commissioned some of our most eminent living writers to introduce each volume with their personal insights and experiences of Twain. Readers will find, for instance, Toni Morrison reflecting on Huckleberry Finn, Kurt Vonnegut on Connecticut Yankee, Arthur Miller on Twain's Autobiography, Roy Blount Jr. on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, E.L. Doctorow on Tom Sawyer, Willie Morris on Life on the Mississippi, Garry Wills on Christian Science, and Cynthia Ozick on The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays. Other writers include Gore Vidal, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Plimpton, Ward Just, Russell Banks, Bobbie Ann Mason, Malcolm Bradbury, Nat Hentoff, Sherley Anne Williams, Justin Kaplan, Walter Mosley, Erica Jong, Judith Martin ("Miss Manners"), David Bradley, Frederick Pohl, Mordecai Richler, Lee Smith, Anne Bernays, Charles Johnson, Fred Busch, and actor Hal Holbrook (who introduces Twain's collected speeches). And each volume includes an afterword by a noted scholar--such as Louis J. Budd, Victor A. Doyno, Leslie A. Fiedler, James A. Miller, Linda Wagner-Martin, Forrest Robinson, M. Thomas Inge, Fred Kaplan, Susan Harris, and David L. Smith--who place the work in the context of Twain's career and the literary and social climate of the time. In effect, the set gathers together an American literary who's who, all of whom reflect on what Mark Twain's work means to them as writers and scholars, and what he means to our literary history and to our culture as a whole. Taken together, these introductions and afterwords provide a major reevaluation of Twain, allowing readers to see his work in fresh ways. In the deluxe Signed Edition of The Oxford Mark Twain, limited to only 240 sets, each volume has been signed by both the author of the introduction and the author of the afterword. The Signed Edition also features a beautiful book plate signature page with a stamp distinguishing it as one of this remarkable limited edition. It will be a treasure for any book collector, any Twain devotee, and any lover of fine books and literature. But of course the most important thing is the work itself. Here is the full range of Twain's remarkably prolific career, including The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Million Pound Banknote, Following the Equator, and Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Readers will find freewheeling parodies and burlesques, Twain's inimitable travel pieces, rich and complex portraits of childhood along the Mississippi, ghost stories and detective stories, irreverent lampoons of corrupt politicians, dark ruminations on the nature of humanity, and sharp-tongued editorials on the events of his day (such as Belgian imperialism in Africa or anti-Semitism in Vienna). Many of the works included here--such as Sketches, New and Old, A Tramp Abroad, The American Claimant, Is Shakespeare Dead? and Joan of Arc--have not been readily available for decades. Equally important, The Oxford Mark Twain is a facsimile of the first American editions of Twain's work, and includes all the original illustrations, some of which were drawn by Twain himself, and many of which have not been seen since these editions went out of print. Moreover, in each volume containing art, Fishkin has commissioned an essay on that volume's illustrations and the artists responsible. Captivating in themselves, these illustrations add an extra dimension to the narratives that has been missing for a hundred years. Each volume also includes, as its frontispiece, a specially selected photo of Twain around the age he was when he wrote the book at hand. The Oxford Mark Twain is an unprecedented undertaking and a cause for celebration. Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark Twain speaks to us across time with verve and wisdom. Combining the works themselves, reflections on Twain by some of our leading writers and scholars, and the original illustrations--all at a very affordable price--this superb twenty-nine-volume set will be treasured by everyone.
Merry Tales
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547059820 |
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This is an anthology of seven short stories and sketches by famous author Mark Twain. Tales include The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The Invalid's Story, Luck, The Captain's Story, A Curious Experience, Mrs Mc Williams and the Lightning, and Meisterschaft. First published in 1892, most of the stories explore the idea of war and its impact on society. The final sketch, Meisterschaft, is written as a play.
The Actual Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher
Author | : Jessica Lawson |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781481401531 |
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In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
Sketches New and Old
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781613100332 |
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The Complete Mark Twain Collection
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2009* |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:705962354 |
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The entire Mark Twain anthology with over 300 books and story collections ... Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3293692 |
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