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Una preciosa adaptación de la novela original escrita por Mark Twain.Obra maestra de la literatura, Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer relatan la traviesa infancia de Tom en el pueblo de San Petersburgo. Muchas fueron las aventuras que el astuto y noble muchacho corrió a orillas del Misisipí junto a su amigo vagabundo Huckleberry Finn, enfrentándose a la voluntad, las premisas y las reglas impuestas por los mayores e intentando llevar una vida en abs...

This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and what mankind really is and provides a new and ...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Yankee mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight and awakens to find himself at Camelot in AD 528. Condemned to death by the knights of the Round Table, he saves himself through scientific knowledge.

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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays" is a collection of essays on various subjects by America's most famous satirist, Mark Twain. Contained in this volume you will find the following essays: How to Tell a Story, In Defense of Harriet Shelley, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Travelling With a Reformer, Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story, Mental Telegraphy Again, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget, Th...

Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read", The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.

Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read", The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.

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Hank Morgan, ein waschechter Yankee, wird durch einen Schlag auf den Kopf an den Hof von König Artus zurückversetzt, wo er mit seinen profunden naturwissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen mächtig Eindruck macht. Seinen Konkurrenten Merlin kann er als Zauberer schnell ausstechen. Doch nur allzu bald wandelt sich der Modernisierer zum brutalen Ausbeuter. Mark Twains Gegenüberstellung von Frühkapitalismus und Frühmittelalter ist eine grandiose Gesellscha...

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as "The Gilded Age" because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives, one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the g...

Traducción y prólogo de José Luis Piquero. El pretendiente americano, novela publicada en 1892, es digna de figurar entre las mayores creaciones de Mark Twain. En ella, el autor no sólo vertió su genio narrativo y su capacidad para el humor paródico, sino que también supo dar curso a sus avanzadas preocupaciones sociales, apuntando algunos de los temas que aún hoy centran el debate de nuestra sociedad contemporánea. El joven Berkeley, primogén...

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Vielen der Eigenheiten, die den Gestaltungs- und Differenzierungsreichtum unserer Muttersprache prägen - Genus, relativ freie Wortstellung, vielfältige Möglichkeiten der Wortbildung und spannungsreiche Parenthesen etwa -, stehen Ausländer oft fassungslos gegenüber. Noch immer ist Mark Twains Klage über die "schreckliche deutsche Sprache" das wohl amüsanteste Beispiel für das - eher vergebliche - Bemühen, der Tücken des Deutschen Herr zu werden...

The classic travelogue of one of America's most famous authors, Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" was written when having fallen upon hard times financially, Twain found himself compelled to take a tour of the British Empire in 1895 and write about it. This is that account, published in 1897, it is a classic example of Twain's ever vigilant observational wit. He addresses such important and still ever timely topics as racism, imperialism and...

Einfach die Englischkenntnisse verbessern mit den schönsten und besten englischen Kurzgeschichten. Native Speaker lesen die Geschichten im jeweiligen Originaldialekt. Mit jeweils einer ausführlichen Analyse von Autor, Werk und geschichtliche Hintergründe Das umfangreiche Booklett enthält den Text zum Mitlesen und die Übersetzung vieler Vokabeln Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) gilt zusammen mit Edgar Allen Poe und H.P. Lovecraft als Erfinder des...