Mark Twain - Libros y biografía

The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl—a case of love at first sight and a precipitate...

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was...

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the...

Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Complete Edition' is a literary masterpiece that provides a vivid portrayal of life in 19th century America. Twain's impeccable storytelling...

Libro de oferta. Contiene la obra, Príncipe y Mendigo.Intercambiar durante un tiempo la existencia propia con la de unextraño es una vieja aspiración humana que sigue alimentando laficción y algún que...

La knabo Tom Sawyer, kiu kiel orfo vivas kun sia duonfrato Sid kaj Marinjo che sia onklino Polly, travivas kun Tom Sawyer kaj aliaj knaboj diversajn aventurojn en la urbeto Sankt-Peterburgo en la meza...

No pacata cidadezinha de St. Petersburg, às margens do rio Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, um menino órfão, sonhador e muito esperto, apronta as maiores peripécias para contornar as exigências da tia Polly e...

The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.

SATURDAY.—I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember...

Cosa ci fanno Guy Fawkes, un tagliateste medievale, un nativo americano che ha combattuto contro Washington e un compagno navigatore di Cristoforo Colombo nella stessa storia? E la dolce Conrad riuscirà...

A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry....

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from...

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented...

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail...

The Prince and the Pauper: Unabridged with all the Illustrations by Mark Twain. This is the story of two young boys, one a prince and the other a pauper, who look identical. They meet and on a whim trade...

Dieses E-Book ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig Korrektur gelesen. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (* 30. November 1835 in Florida, Missouri; † 21....

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from...

Questa storia va ascritta a quelle invenzioni letterarie che non avranno mai fine. Soprattutto perché legate a quel mondo giovanile dell’avventura che ha sempre affascinato i più giovani. Huck Finn che...

Simpatico, vivace, irrequieto, ribelle. Tom Sawyer è un ragazzino di dieci anni, adottato dalla zia alla morte dei genitori; i suoi abiti sono sempre sgualciti e nelle sue tasche si possono trovare gli...

Tre racconti di Mark Twain (1835-1910), l’autore de “Le avventure di Tom Sawyer” e di “Huckleberry Finn”: “Il diario di Eva”, la vita della prima coppia nel giardino dell’Eden raccontata secondo la prospettiva...

Al giovane monello Tom Sawyer piace nuotare, cercare tesori nascosti, rubare la marmellata, torturare il gatto, fare a pugni coi bambini e corteggiare le bambine, ficcarsi nei guai assieme agli amici,...

Mark Twain - I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when...

“He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer turns his telescope...

Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing...

My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning...

Book I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume, and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hitherto published in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of...

Dieses E-Book ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig Korrektur gelesen. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (* 30. November 1835 in Florida, Missouri; † 21....

"Comportati bene e resterai solo. Un manuale cinico sulla dannata razza umana" raccoglie oltre trenta scritti tra saggi brevi, j’accuse, articoli e discorsi, molti dei quali inediti in Italia, per tentare...

Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal...