Bøker av Mark Twain

For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. This title includes thirty-six of these writings.

What is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings.

Provides the texts of Twain's writings, both fictional and factual, about the people and places of his home town, Hannibal, Missouri. This title presents details about antebellum Hannibal, its society and its attitudes toward slavery, and to vivid memories about the child, his mother, and his father in the 1840's and 1850's.

In several instances Mark Twain gave the impression that for him plotting a novel was a rather simple affair... But in actuality, this volume illustrates that he experienced much more trouble than this statement would suggest in delimiting his fictional world, establishing its nature, and maintaining control over the characters placed therein.

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America.

This collection Mark Twain's writing aims to capture the essence of the author's work - the dark humour, the wry observations, and the keen insight into social and political realities, both specifically American and broadly human.

Mark Twain's famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story.

Brilliantly illustrated, this witty, charming story is perfect for clever girls, adults and the mischievous boys in their midst.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

"This is the first and most complete collection of all 136 humorous sketches and tales that Samuel Clemens (1835--1910), a.k.a. Mark Twain, started writing as a young reporter for various newspapers and"

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Mark Twain is one of America's most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain's stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will read about people's hopes and fears, happiness and terrible sadness-and wonderful practical jokes!

A major scholar of Mark Twain contextualizes one of the most debated novels in American history in this new edition.

Word count 9,304

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

Huckleberry Finn would rather be free than 'sivilized'.

Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom-loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want?

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences.This volume also includes two other late works `Those Extraordinary Twins' and `The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'.

Word count 5,825 CD: American English Suitable for young learners Bestseller

In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer, resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination.

Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark Twain's penetrating genius.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 6,180 CD: American English Bestseller

Word count 890 Suitable for young learners

The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. This edition reproduces more than 40 of Dan Beard's original drawings.

Mark Twain is one of America's most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain's stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will read about people's hopes and fears, happiness and terrible sadness-and wonderful practical jokes!

A sumptuous annotated edition of the great American novel.

Presents the author's account of travelling in Europe. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, this title includes such adventures as a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art.

A title that follows Clemens from his first days as a resident journalist in California, late in May 1864, through the end of his first full year as a California resident, 1865. In this twenty-month period he wrote most of his work for the San Francisco Golden Era, the Morning Call, the Dramatic Chronicle, and the Californian.

Though now enshrined as major masterpieces of American literature, Twain's classic tales of childhood remain as fresh as when they were first written. Vivid and funny, the stories chronicle journeys from innocence to experience in which innocence is preserved.