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Excerpt from Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to DateBook II was written at the beginning of 1903, and has not until now appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present a character-portrait of Mrs. Eddy, drawn from her own acts and words solely, not from hearsay and rumor, and to explain the nature and scope of her Monarchy, as revealed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

Excerpt from Men and Things: America's Best Funny Stories About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an im...

The Mysterious Stranger is the novel endeavored by the American creator Mark Twain. He took a shot at it discontinuously from 1897 through 1908. Twain composed different adaptations of the story, each includes a powerful character called "Satan" or "No. 44". Every one of the editions remained incomplete.

Tom Sawyer Abroad is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these ...

Why the Humorous Story Can Only Be Told by Americans I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told. There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kindÑthe humorous. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling, the comic story and the witty story upon ...

More Tramps Abroad is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these...

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Among the more than a dozen different English translation of Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, Mark Twain's free rendering is certainly the most original. And among the many translators of the timeless children's classic into over 100 languages and dialects, the American writer is no doubt the most prominent ... In her "Foreword" to the first publication of her father's Struwwelpeter Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens wrote: "Certain books, ...

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New York Times Bestseller!A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children's story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead, creators of the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee. In a hotel in Paris one evening in 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of...

Part fact, part fiction, Mark Twain's Roughing It takes readers on a high-spirited journey from Missouri to Nevada, California to Hawaii. Travel via stagecoach through woods, plains, hills, and gorges, as Twain spins yarn after yarn on the people he meets, and the towns they explore. Originally published in 1872, this semi-autobiographical semi-prequel to Innocents Abroad satirizes American and Western society in a way that only Mark Twain kno...

I racconti e gli sketches qui riuniti sono tratti dall'edizione originale di Mark Twairis Sketches New and Old Now First Published in Complete Form che lo stesso Mark Twain curò nel 1882 per l'American Publishing Company. Nel racconto che dà il titolo alla raccolta un viaggio in treno assume aspetti paradossalmente agghiaccianti, con un'accorta manipolazione della progressione di effetti nel mistero. Il racconto II celebre ranocchio saltatore ...

Mark Twain's tale of a young runaway and his adventures with Jim, an escaped slave, not only entertains but also challenges readers. Join Huck and Jim as they travel down the Mississippi. A controversial work of American literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn challenged 19th century readers to confront questions of race and class. Filled with humor and adventure, this story has been criticized for its language and racial depictions, an...

Mark Twain's classic tale of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi River and life in the antebellum South.

Iniziato nel 1870 e giacente per anni in una cassaforte, pubblicato poi sullo "Harper Magazine" del dicembre 1907 e del gennaio 1908 e un anno dopo in volume (ma i primi due capitoli usciranno soltanto postumi), il Viaggio in Paradiso è fra le opere migliori del grande scrittore americano Mark Twain, quella che meglio di ogni altra, secondo George Bernard Shaw, permette di entrare nel suo universo di scrittore. Si tratta di una specie di fanta...

Ha scritto Italo Calvino che se il denaro rappresenta per Balzac una forza motrice della storia e per Dickens una pietra di paragone dei sentimenti, "in Mark Twain il denaro è gioco di specchi, vertigine del vuoto", e di tale gioco e vertigine la testimonianza più emblematica viene offerta da questo racconto, apparso per la prima volta nel 1899, vero e proprio apologo che ha per protagonista un'intera cittadinanza, famosa per la sua sbandierat...