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  • The American Claimant and Other Stories
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT is a less-known, but brilliantly satirical novel, which ranks behind THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and PUDDIN’HEAD WILSON, but is still of major interest, as anything by Mark Twain does. Among the 'Merry Tales' is a searing dissection of the follies and illusions of war, 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed.' ...
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    23,70 €

  • The American Claimant and Other Stories
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT is a less-known, but brilliantly satirical novel, which ranks behind THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and PUDDIN’HEAD WILSON, but is still of major interest, as anything by Mark Twain does. Among the 'Merry Tales' is a searing dissection of the follies and illusions of war, 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed.' ...
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    31,96 €

  • Roughing It, Vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Shortly after his inglorious 'military career' in a Confederate militia, as related in 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed,' Mark Twain 'lit out for the Territories' when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnec...
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    32,01 €

  • Roughing It, Vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Shortly after his inglorious 'military career' in a Confederate militia, as related in 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed,' Mark Twain 'lit out for the Territories' when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnec...
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    21,68 €

  • Roughing It, Vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Shortly after his inglorious 'military career' in a Confederate militia, as related in 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed,' Mark Twain 'lit out for the Territories' when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnec...
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    31,87 €

  • The Gilded Age, Vol. 1
    Charles Dudley Warner / Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Mark Twain here collaborates with Charles Dudley Warner in a novel which gave its name to the era in which it was written. Here is a definitive dissection of the pretenses of the high Victorian era, its corruption, hypocrisy, and, in Twain’s eye, comic absurdities. ...
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    21,68 €

  • The Gilded Age, Vol. 1
    Charles Dudley Warner / Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Mark Twain here collaborates with Charles Dudley Warner in a novel which gave its name to the era in which it was written. Here is a definitive dissection of the pretenses of the high Victorian era, its corruption, hypocrisy, and, in Twain’s eye, comic absurdities. ...
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    31,87 €

  • A Tramp Abroad, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    One of the finest of Twain’s travel books, detailing (often hilariously) his adventures in Europe, as a Yankee confronting the Old World. France, Germany, and Switzerland will never quite seem the same again. A fascinating glimpse of far times and places, seen through the eye of America’s best writer. ...
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    18,41 €

  • A Tramp Abroad, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    One of the finest of Twain’s travel books, detailing (often hilariously) his adventures in Europe, as a Yankee confronting the Old World. France, Germany, and Switzerland will never quite seem the same again. A fascinating glimpse of far times and places, seen through the eye of America’s best writer. ...
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    32,04 €

  • A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    One of the finest of Twain’s travel books, detailing (often hilariously) his adventures in Europe, as a Yankee confronting the Old World. France, Germany, and Switzerland will never quite seem the same again. A fascinating glimpse of far times and places, seen through the eye of America’s best writer. ...
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    21,81 €

  • A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    One of the finest of Twain’s travel books, detailing (often hilariously) his adventures in Europe, as a Yankee confronting the Old World. France, Germany, and Switzerland will never quite seem the same again. A fascinating glimpse of far times and places, seen through the eye of America’s best writer. ...
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    31,98 €

  • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Essays and Stories
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    The title novella in this sparkling collection is one of Twain’s most deadly satires, about civic vice disguised as virtue and its devasting consequences. Any volume of Twain’s shorter pieces makes excellent reading. Here was a writer who could make any conceivable subject entertaining and often profound. Also included are 'My Debut as a Literary Person,' 'The Esquimau Maiden’s...
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    21,53 €

  • Life on the Mississippi
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    This is the book that everyone knew, in Mark Twain’s time, that he had to write. It is the story of his youth on the Mississippi and his career as a riverboat pilot before the Civil War, which contains not only some of his very best writing, but remains our most vivid picture of this colorful era in American history. It might be fairly said that LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is to st...
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    39,11 €

  • The Innocents Abroad, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    In which America’s greatest writer accompanies a boatload of often ridiculous, provincial pilgrims on The Tour of Europe and the Holy Land, as pretensions are punctured, much supposedly taken for granted is viewed with a jaundiced eye, and what could be a mere travel book rises to the level of great literature: a microcosm of the entire human comedy. ...
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    21,73 €

  • The Innocents Abroad, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    In which America’s greatest writer accompanies a boatload of often ridiculous, provincial pilgrims on The Tour of Europe and the Holy Land, as pretensions are punctured, much supposedly taken for granted is viewed with a jaundiced eye, and what could be a mere travel book rises to the level of great literature: a microcosm of the entire human comedy. ...
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    31,91 €

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Authorized Uniform Edition
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
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    28,53 €

  • Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) revolves around two boys-one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other’s social role.'Those Extraordinary Twins' is an outtake short story, abandoned in favor of the final book form of Pudd’nhead Wilson. ...
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    19,50 €

  • Joan of Arc, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    This fictionalized 'biography' told by an intimate companion of Joan of Arc was thought by Mark Twain to be his finest work. It was hugely popular in its time, and while the tastes of subsequent generations may have elevated HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER to a higher level, JOAN OF ARC still remains one of Twain’s most colorful and passionately-imagined books. ...
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    20,63 €

  • Joan of Arc, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    This fictionalized 'biography' told by an intimate companion of Joan of Arc was thought by Mark Twain to be his finest work. It was hugely popular in its time, and while the tastes of subsequent generations may have elevated HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER to a higher level, JOAN OF ARC still remains one of Twain’s most colorful and passionately-imagined books. ...
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    27,28 €

  • Joan of Arc, vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    This fictionalized 'biography' told by an intimate companion of Joan of Arc was thought by Mark Twain to be his finest work. It was hugely popular in its time, and while the tastes of subsequent generations may have elevated HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER to a higher level, JOAN OF ARC still remains one of Twain’s most colorful and passionately-imagined books. ...
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    18,78 €

  • Joan of Arc, vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    This fictionalized 'biography' told by an intimate companion of Joan of Arc was thought by Mark Twain to be his finest work. It was hugely popular in its time, and while the tastes of subsequent generations may have elevated HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER to a higher level, JOAN OF ARC still remains one of Twain’s most colorful and passionately-imagined books. ...
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    27,41 €

  • The Gilded Age, Vol. 2
    Charles Dudley Warner / Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Mark Twain here collaborates with Charles Dudley Warner in a novel which gave its name to the era in which it was written. Here is a definitive dissection of the pretenses of the high Victorian era, its corruption, hypocrisy, and, in Twain’s eye, comic absurdities. ...
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    20,57 €

  • The Gilded Age, Vol. 2
    Charles Dudley Warner / Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Mark Twain here collaborates with Charles Dudley Warner in a novel which gave its name to the era in which it was written. Here is a definitive dissection of the pretenses of the high Victorian era, its corruption, hypocrisy, and, in Twain’s eye, comic absurdities. ...
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    30,20 €

  • Roughing It, Vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Shortly after his inglorious 'military career' in a Confederate militia, as related in 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed,' Mark Twain 'lit out for the Territories' when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnec...
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    18,76 €

  • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Mark Twain was certainly America’s greatest writer. His genius enabled him to make entertaining reading, even great literature, out of almost anything. Therefore all his collections of miscellaneous shorter works are treasure-troves of short stories, essays, autobiography, and journalistic sketches, ranging, as this one does, from a story told from the point of view of a dog, a...
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    20,39 €

  • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Mark Twain was certainly America’s greatest writer. His genius enabled him to make entertaining reading, even great literature, out of almost anything. Therefore all his collections of miscellaneous shorter works are treasure-troves of short stories, essays, autobiography, and journalistic sketches, ranging, as this one does, from a story told from the point of view of a dog, a...
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    32,03 €

  • Following the Equator, Vol.1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    As America’s finest writer, Mark Twain could make entertaining reading -- and great literature -- out of almost anything. Here we have a book begun out of adversity. The great novelist, satirist, and public celebrity was broke, ruined by various ill-advised investment schemes; but, being a man of honor on a public stage, he resolved to pay off every cent of his crushing debt. H...
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    18,64 €

  • Following the Equator, Vol.2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    As America’s finest writer, Mark Twain could make entertaining reading -- and great literature -- out of almost anything. Here we have a book begun out of adversity. The great novelist, satirist, and public celebrity was broke, ruined by various ill-advised investment schemes; but, being a man of honor on a public stage, he resolved to pay off every cent of his crushing debt. H...
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    20,38 €

  • The Innocents Abroad, vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    In which America’s greatest writer accompanies a boatload of often ridiculous, provincial pilgrims on The Tour of Europe and the Holy Land, as pretensions are punctured, much supposedly taken for granted is viewed with a jaundiced eye, and what could be a mere travel book rises to the level of great literature: a microcosm of the entire human comedy. ...
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    31,53 €

  • The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
    Twain Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
    The mischievous and inventive little boy Tom Sawyer is followed in Mark Twain’s 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as he makes his way around the sleepy hamlet of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom goes on a number of experiences with his closest buddy Huckleberry Finn, including playing pirates and looking for riches, as well as going to his own funeral and seeing a murder. To...
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    15,94 €


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