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A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...
11) Joan of Arc
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English
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Very few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important, but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and may months in France doing archival work, and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the stoyr he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by by...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
14) Twain's end
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
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"From the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of the "page-turning tale" (Library Journal, starred review) Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America's most iconic writer: Mark Twain. In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
Mark Twain...
On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.
On truth and lies: many when they come to...
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Maximilian P. Mouse time traveler volume 4
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Low on fuel, Maximilian's time machine lands him on a Mississippi riverboat where he meets a friendly southern bullfrog, collects an autograph from the author Samuel Clemens to add to his souvenirs, and gets enough fuel to continue his journey through history.
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