Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410349810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Study Guide for Samuel Langhorne Clemens's "The Invalid's Story"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410349810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
Author: Mark TwainLife on the Mississippi Annotated
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the war.
Old Times on the Mississippi
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Chapters from My Autobiography
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Renowned American humorist Mark Twain turns his incisive wit loose on his own life story in this unique take on the nineteenth-century memoir. Originally composed in a format that studiously ignored the careful chronological structure that most autobiographies follow, these essays were first published in book form ten years after the author's death. Twain fans will love the author's account of his quintessentially American upbringing, wildly zig-zagging career path, and gradual transition into the writing life.
Mark Twain's Autobiography
Author: Mark TwainThe Anthem Guide to Short Fiction
Author: Christopher LinforthPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843313391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Containing 20 classic short stories by a variety of renowned authors, including Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce and Edith Wharton, The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction has been designed to offer students and instructors both inspiration and guidance when thinking and writing about literary texts and their construction. Each story is followed by a critical ‘Thinking About the Story’ section, and is accompanied by a set of incisive discussion questions formulated to stimulate insightful literary thought. Similarly, the guide’s creative activities have been devised to engage critical and imaginative thinking, as well as to offer the reader an understanding of authorship and the creative process. Additional features include biographical notes, editorial introductions, and a concise glossary of literary terms.
Twain's End
Author: Lynn CullenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476758972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"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, wrote a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, and then --with his daughter, Clara Clemens--slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted service to their family."--Page 4 of cover
A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Letters From The Earth
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Youcanprint
ISBN: 8892658379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.