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Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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Summary: The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Choice Publishing 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1961
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 810 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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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 Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 1Twain, 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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Summary: Collection of Mark Twain's works over the last nineteen years of his life including a chronology of his life and career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1992
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Contents: The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Life on the Mississippi -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1982
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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: 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: University of Georgia Press 1995
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Summary: This exuberantly eclectic collection of Twain's writings includes parody, criticism, and commentary, all published after his death in 1910.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2004
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Summary: Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1972
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TwainTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.92 TWATwain, Mark
Summary: Compiles letters, essays, diaries, and excerpts about heaven, hell, sinners, and saints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit TwainTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1980
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press 1972
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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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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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