Mark Twain
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Selected works of humor and criticism by a revered American master. Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still taught to anyone who attends school and is considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Twain's shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled...
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Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Includes hundreds of Twain's most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel, and diverse other topics, among them "He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty"; "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"; and "More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking."
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for...
Author
Series
Harper colophon books volume CN 678
Pub. Date
1979, ©1972
Description
Short writings and segments of longer prose works containing critical and ironic treatments of war and social injustice by the famous Missouri story-teller.
Author
Series
Clasicos Universales volume 8
Description
The escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn in a little town along the Mississippi River.