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  • 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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  • 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 €

  • The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
    Mark Twain
    'There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.'-Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894), one of Mark Twain’s most entertaining, funny, but also bitter works, takes place during the antebellum in the fictional town of Daw...
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  • 1601
    Mark Twain
    [Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906.Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation bet...
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    9,97 €

  • A Tramp Abroad
    Mark Twain
    'That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.'-Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880)A Tramp Abroad (1880), by Mark Twain, is about his travels with his friend Joseph Twichell through the German Black Forest, the Swiss Alps, and Italy. The storyteller, Twain, acts as a typical American tourist of the time touring Europe, believin...
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    26,14 €

  • Sketches New and Old
    Mark Twain
    'I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before (...) not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemedinstructive.-Mark Twain, Preface Sketches New and Old (1875) Sketches New and Old (1875) by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories published first as newspaper articles all with Twain’s hu...
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    12,57 €

  • Roughing It
    Mark Twain
    'This book is merely a personal narrative and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation...Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter.'-Mark Twain (1872) Roughing It (...
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    21,06 €

  • Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
    Mark Twain
    'Arthur Twain was a man of considerable note-a solicitor on the highway in William Rufus’ time. At about the age of thirty he went to one of those fine old English places ofresort called Newgate, to see about something, and never returned again. While there he diedsuddenly.'-Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography (1871)Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and Fi...
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    13,05 €

  • The Innocents Abroad
    Mark Twain
    'This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who travelled in those countries before him.'-Mark Twain (1869) The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Pr...
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