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Hollis, Mark. Isham, Mark. Lystra, Karen. Twain, Mark Twain, Mark. Zwonitzer, MarkTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWASummary: Seems like a simple enough storyline, considering it became one of the most significant, beloved, acclaimed, and studied novels ever written. This classic motion picture is the definitive adaptation of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - splendidly filmed, lovingly produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, with an acclaimed all-star cast, and presented in an unedited, full-length version....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985
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Summary: America’s magnificent storyteller Mark Twain has crafted an intriguing and classic tale of mistaken identity, deceit, and murder. At the center of it all is a slave woman who cradle-switches her master’s son with her own light-skinned baby…a child, though raised as white, who never fulfills her hopes and dreams for him as he becomes an arrogant and cruel man. Acclaimed actor Ken Howard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1983
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Twain, Mark
Contents: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the old ram -- What stumped the Bluejays -- Tom Quartz -- Cannibalism in the cars -- The facts in the great beef contract -- Journalism in Tennessee -- Punch, brothers, punch -- The McWilliamses with Membranous Croup -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Room Publishers, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWASummary: Hadleyburg has a reputation for unshakable honesty. The smug townspeople are proud of this virtue and keep themselves honest by simply avoiding temptation. That is until “the man that corrupted Hadleyburg” arrives in town. Robert Preston stars as the stranger who plots a revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to the citizens who once showed him charity many years before....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1980
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Lystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWATwain, Mark
Contents: Introduction -- Curing a cold -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- A touching story of George Washington's boyhood -- Advice for good little girls -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Answers to correspondents -- Concerning chambermaids -- An inquiry about insurances -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A fine old man -- A visit to Niagara -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prion Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWATwain, Mark
Contents: My first lie, and how I got out of it -- The turning-point of my life -- My first literary venture -- My début as a literary person -- Niagara -- Science vs. luck -- The late Benjamin Franklin -- The petrified man -- George Washington's Negro body-servant -- Lionizing murderers -- A new crime -- About barbers -- Running for governor -- A mysterious visit -- Curing a cold -- The bee -- A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 TWATwain, Mark
Summary: "This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWATwain, Mark
Summary: Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818..4 TWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 1Zwonitzer, Mark
Summary: "John Hay, famous as Lincoln's private secretary and later as secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for being 'Mark Twain,' grew up fifty miles apart, on the banks of the Mississippi River, in thesame rural antebellum stew of race and class and want. This shared history helped draw them together when they first met as up-and-coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ZWOTwain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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Summary: Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook--an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race--contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.409 TWATwain, Mark
Summary: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain once wrote. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK TWASummary: Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Classics of the United States, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 MARTwain, Mark
Summary: An anthology of the works of Mark Twain including the complete texts of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn", selections from his travel and humorous sketches, and excerpts from lesser-known novels. Texts are taken from first editions and include the original illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books : distributed by Crown Publishers 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TWASummary: This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Huckleberry 2005Isham, Mark.
Contents: Honeymoon nights / Isham (5:22) -- I never will know / Tikaram (5:52) -- Marionnette (5:56) ; An eye on the world (3:56) / Isham -- Blue moon / Rodgers, Hart (4:22) -- Ashes and diamonds (3:09) ; Toward the infinite white (5:18) / Isham -- Song of the flying fish / Isham, Torn (4:38) -- Turkish delight / Isham (6:45).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE ISHHollis, Mark.
Contents: The colour of spring -- Watershed -- Inside looking out -- The gift -- A life, 1895-1915 -- Westward bound -- The daily planet -- A new Jerusalem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pond Life 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOLTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 2Twain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWASummary: Few works in American literature address issues as timeless as those explored in Mark Twain's controversial novel, Huckleberry Finn. In this program, three scholars, including noted Twain biographer Justin Kaplan, examine the work and its various themes-race, cruelty, consequences of greed, meaning of civilization, and the nature of freedom. The author's life is traced from his days as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Twain, Mark
Summary: Mark Twain’s life—one of the richest and raciest America has known—is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America’s most colorful personalities. The words are Twain’s own, taken from his writings—not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWATwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1995