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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court


This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528.
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Life On The Mississippi


Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River. In the second half, the book describes Twain's return, many years later, to travel on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, the new, large cities, and his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the U.S. and in England, it is said to be the first book composed on a typewriter. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc


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 as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, "Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France".De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life - as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles' army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte's memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.
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Roughing It


Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel.Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer.In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.(Source: Wikipedia)
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The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories


The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories was written in the year 1906 by Mark Twain. This book is one of the most popular novels of Mark Twain, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


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.
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The Jumping Frog


Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." Containing the original story (in english), a french translation which was published in la Revue des Deux Mondes and which Twain finds to be a travesty of the original text, and Twain's re-translation of the french back into english, word for word (this is where things degenerate). A masterpiece of babelfishien nonsense dating from well before babelfish was even a gleam in the binary code of its creator (1903). Best appreciated if you can read both French and English, but even if you skip the french version it's truly brilliant. If you have ever translated random text using babelfish just because it's funny, don't miss this book.As good old Samuel Clemens himself put it in his foreword "I cannot speak the French language, but I can translate very well, though not fast, I being self-educated."
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Élet a Mississippin


Mark Twain vonzalma a hajósélet iránt több művéből ismeretes. De, hogy ő maga mint hajókormányos hogyan élt, azt ebben a művében írja le a legrészletesebben. Beteljesült vágyairól igen mozgalmas-kalandos-humoros fejezetekben ad számot. A Nagy Szennyvízcsatornát a Mississippit érett író korában ismét végigutazta, s ennek a hajóútnak ürügyén bűbájos történet-mozaikokban eleveníti fel a korabeli életet. Kifogyhatatlan mesélőkedv és kesernyés-csípős humor lengi át az egész könyvet, melynek ellenállhatatlan varázsa végig vonzásában tartja az olvasót. Ennek során aztán szondázásról, ujjlenyomatokról, viharokról, szépséges palotákról, iparkodó zsiványokról, spiritiszta szeánszokról, bűnbánó betörökről, vérbosszúról, arkangyalokról, indián legendákról és egyebekről villant fel maradandó képeket.
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Huckleberry Finn kalandjai


„Aki nem olvasta a Tom Sawyer kalandjai címu könyvet, mit se tudhat rólam, de az nem tesz semmit. A könyvet egy Mark Twain nevu úriember írta, és nagyjából az igazságot írta meg. Néha lódított egyet-mást, de azért a java igazság, amit írt." Huckleberry Finn szavai ezek, a regény izgalmas eseményeit ugyanis az o elbeszélésébol ismerjük meg. De ott van mellette huséges barátja, Tom Sawyer is. Minden nagy vállalkozásuk közös: hajóznak a Mississippin, szélhámosok társaságába keverednek, nagy és izgalmas „rabszolga-szabadító"akciót folytatnak – úgy, ahogy az igazi nagy regényekben meg van írva – az öreg Jim megszöktetésére. A legnehezebb mégis: mindezt megírni. Huck Finn oszinte szavai szerint: „Ha tudtam volna, hogy milyen fene nehéz dolog egy ilyen könyvet megírni, bele se fogtam volna; nem is kezdek ilyenbe még egyszer."
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Jeanne d'Arc


Sokan és sokféleképpen megelevenítették már a világirodalomban Jeanne D'Arc alakját. Volt, aki a szentet, isten kiválasztottját, más a francia nemzeti hőst, s volt, aki az álnokul tőrbe ejtett tiszta és erős fiatal lányt látta és ábrázolta benne. Mark Twain magyarul most először megjelenő művében az egyszerű kis parasztlányt idézi meg, akinek ereje népével való összeforrottságából fakad. Az író nem szól közvetlenül olvasóihoz, a történetet egy „megigézett” kortárs szájába adja, aki Jeanne D'Arc gyermekkori játszótársa, majd diadalmas útján írnoka, apródja volt. A szemtanú emlékiratában emberi közelségből, meghitten örökíti meg a nagyszerű francia lányt: kutatja, keresi egyénisége és cselekedetei titkait, s a kedves egyszerűség glóriáját fonja Jeanne D'Arc alakja és élete köré.
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Koldus és királyfi


Egy nyugtalan képzeletű koldusfiúcska a XVI. századi London nyomortanyáin könyveket olvas, és királyokról álmodik… Érdeklődése egy napon egészen a királyi palotáig sodorja, és egyszerre csak bent van a pompás termekben, s a vele egyidős királyfi játékból ruhacserét ajánl, csak egy-két pillanatra. Nos, ez a játék, különféle félreértések miatt, valóságra fordul! A koldusfiú hónapokon át élheti a királyfiú fenséges, de cseppet sem irigylésre méltó életét, a királyfiú pedig szörnyű megaláztatások és szenvedések közt kénytelen ismereteket, emberséget és bölcsességet gyűjteni eljövendő országlása idejére. Mark Twain részrehajlás nélkül mindkét sorsnak a legalaposabban végére járt, mint aki maga is hol koldusnak, hol királyfinak álmodja magát…
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
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The Million Pound Bank Note


The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it.
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The Prince and the Pauper


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 in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
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The War Prayer


Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering. He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.
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Tom Sawyer Abroad


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 to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.
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