Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Sketches New and Old
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Sketches New and Old
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Sketches New and Old, Illustrated, V1
Author: Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11372
Book Description
Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old
Author: Mark TwainThe Complete Works of Mark Twain
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Complete Works of Mark Twain: Sketches new and old
Author: Mark TwainSketches New and Old II
Author: Twain M.Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5517002137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and its sequel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. “Sketches New and Old” is a wonderful collection of short stories like “A New Crime,” “The Petrified Man,” “A Mysterious Visit,” and “The Widow’s Protest.”
Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN: 9781521982532
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain by Mark Twain Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories--except for "The Case of George Fisher"--by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly; complaints about barbers and office bores; and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twain's hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. "What fascinates Twain," Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people "react to the things that happen to them." Twain "lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot; words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man"--or woman. "The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection" Smith writes, is one "told by a freed slave." The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.
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