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  • The Prince and the Pauper
    Mark Twain
    Mistaken identity! Subterfuge! Plots and counter plots! Does this sound like the latest murder-mystery novel? Well, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in one of the best childhood fantasy novels ever written. Mark Twain wrote The Prince and the Pauper and dedicated it to his two daughters, Clara and Susie. In a departure from his usual style, Twain weaves a delightful story o...
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    27,67 €

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
    Mark Twain
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    16,87 €

  • Life As I Find It
    Mark Twain
    Mark Twain’s hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection. ...
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    14,79 €

  • The Autobiography of Mark Twain
    Mark Twain
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    14,33 €

  • The Jumping Frog
    Mark Twain
    This collection of Mark Twain stories has not been in print for many years. The 19 stories are a good representation of Twain’s work and abilities. This rare volume can serve as a colorful, exciting collection addition for those who appreciate Twain’s wit and wisdom. ...
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    10,45 €

  • Christian Science with Notes Containing Corrections to Date
    Mark Twain
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    39,84 €

  • Following the Equator V1
    Mark Twain
    Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain’s instinctive eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship’s crew and passengers, ...
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    15,41 €

  • Following the Equator Volume 11
    Mark Twain
    Fascinating humorous account of 1897 voyage to Hawaii, Australia, India, New Zealand, etc. Ironic, bemused reports on peoples, customs, climate, flora and fauna, politics, much more. 197 illustrations. ...
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    15,24 €

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy Tom growing up along the Mississippi River with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid. As the novel begins, we catch him stealing from the jam jar and narrowly escaping being hit. His life is full of adventurous episodes. What happens as he moves from one escapade to another - accompanying Huckleberry F...
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    12,24 €

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Mark Twain
    Perennially listed among the classics of American literature, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a popular self narrated story of a teenage boy. The son of a cruel town drunkard, Huck Finn vividly describes his friendship with Tom Sawyer, his resolve to run away from his abusive father, and his decision to join a runaway slave named Jim in a search for freedom. ...
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    14,51 €

  • Mark Twain’s Autobiography
    Mark Twain
    'Start (an autobiography) at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your mind meantime.'-Mark Twain Mark Twain’s Autobiography published ...
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    38,45 €

  • Europe and Elsewhere
    Mark Twain
    'In like manner the American author who has chosen to call himself Mark Twain has attained to an immense popularity because the qualities he possesses in a high degree appeal to so many and so widely varied publics.'-Brander Matthews (1899)Europe and Elsewhere is a collection of essays by Mark Twain that was edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, Twain’s literary estate agent and biog...
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    26,96 €

  • The Curious Republic of Gondour
    Mark Twain
    'I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and simple, but had thrown that form aside because the result was not satisfactory.'-The Curious Republic of Gondour (1870) The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches (1906) is a collection of short stories and sketches written by Mark Twain in 1870-1871 for The Galaxy and The Buffalo Expres...
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    10,50 €

  • Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume II (In Two Volumes)
    Mark Twain
    'Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind.'-Albert Bigelow Paine, Foreword, Mark Twain’s Letters (1917) Mark Twain’s Letters (in two volumes) is a collection of letters ...
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    32,18 €

  • Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume I (in Two Volumes)
    Mark Twain
    'Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind.'-Albert Bigelow Paine, Foreword, Mark Twain’s Letters (1917) Mark Twain’s Letters (in two volumes) is a collection of letters ...
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    32,10 €

  • The Mysterious Stranger
    Mark Twain
    'I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.'-Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) is the third ...
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    20,87 €

  • Is Shakespeare Dead?
    Mark Twain
    'From away back toward the very beginning of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy I have been on the Bacon side, and have wanted to see our majestic Shakespeare unhorsed. My reasons for this attitude may have been good, they may have been bad, but such as they were, they strongly influenced me.'-Mark Twain  (1909)Is Shakespeare Dead?-From My Autobiography (1909), by Mark Twain, is...
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    18,35 €

  • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
    Mark Twain
    'Money had brought him misery, and he took his revenge upon us, who had done him no harm. He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts.'-The $30,000 Bequest (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of humorous tales by Mark Twain, cove...
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    22,21 €

  • A Horse’s Tale
    Mark Twain
    'I am Buffalo Bill’s horse. I have spent my life under his saddle-with him in it, too, and he isgood for two hundred pounds, without his clothes.'-Mark Twain, A Horse’s Tale (1907) A Horse’s Tale (1907) is a story written by Mark Twain mostly in the voice of Soldier Boy, Buffalo Bill’s horse, who communicates with the reader and with other animals. The main character of this ...
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    9,00 €

  • Eve’s Diary
    Mark Twain
    'Wherever she is, there is Eden.'-Mark Twain, Eve’s Diary (1906)  Eve’s Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. (1906), by Mark Twain, is a sequel to Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1904) and is a comic narrative based on the biblical creation story about Eve from her creation to her burial by Adam. This story is said to be dedicated to Twain’s wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, who di...
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    9,25 €

  • Extracts from Adam’s Diary
    Mark Twain
    'This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like this; I am not used to company. I wish it wouldstay with the other animals.'-Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1906)  Extracts from Adam’s Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. (1906), by Mark Twain, is a comedic account of the biblical Boo...
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    13,28 €

  • A Double Barrelled Detective Story
    Mark Twain
    A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fiancé Jacob Fuller, while she bore his child. ...
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    19,02 €

  • Following the Equator
    Mark Twain
    'Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.'-Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)Following the Equator-A Journey Around the World (1889), a travel book about Mark Twain’s lecture tour in the British Empire, undertaken late in his life to repay his debts after becoming nearly broke. This book describes Twain’s fascinating experiences in Australia, India, ...
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    36,30 €

  • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
    Mark Twain
    'I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.'-Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (1896) was Mark Twain’s last completed novel, offering a portrait of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the French heroine and a national symbol of France. At the age of seventeen, she led a French army to defeat the English...
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    31,74 €

  • The Tragedy Of Pudd’nhead Wilson
    Mark Twain
    The Tragedy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue 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.The story was serialized in The Century M...
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    17,08 €

  • The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
    Mark Twain
    'I was a twenty-seven-year-old mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, andan expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.'-The £1,000,000 Bank Note (1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Ot...
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    16,97 €

  • Merry Tales
    Mark Twain
    'To no writer can the term ’American’ more justly be applied than to the humorist whose Merry Tales are here presented.'-Editor’s Note, Merry Tales (1892)Merry Tales (1892) is a collection of seven humorous short stories written by Mark Twain in his quintessential satirical style. This collection includes Meisterschaft, a play where two young lovers conduct their courtship in b...
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    19,43 €

  • The American Claimant
    Mark Twain
    ' ’...and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that- that- he- he is an impressionist, I presume?’ ’No,’ said the captain simply, ’he is a Presbyterian.’ '-Mark Twain, The American Claimant (1892) The American Claimant (1881), by Mark Twain, is a humorous book about mistaken identities. The main characters are Colonel Mulberr...
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    19,17 €

  • Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
    Mark Twain
    'Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section.'-The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain’s Library of Humor (1888)Mark...
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    36,22 €

  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
    Mark Twain
    'By Mark Twain’s story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump, and won for himself the sobriquet of The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope.'-John Paul, editor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1869)The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story by Mark Twain, originally published weekly in The Saturday Press in 1865, ...
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    10,28 €


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