When Mark Twain's daughter Susie wrote a letter to Santa Claus, her father wrote back, signing Santa's name. Charming and heartwarming, this version of the short letter was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.
Dies ist die anstrengendste Wanderung vor der Erstbesteigung des Mount Everest – besonders für die Lachmuskeln! Obwohl der Baedecker nur drei Stunden bis zum Erreichen des Riffelberg-Gipfels angibt, weiß Mark Twain es besser: Sieben Tage benötigen er und seine voll ausgerüstete Expedition. Klar, daß das nicht ohne Hindernisse vonstatten gegangen ist.
Huckleberry Finn knüpft dort an, wo Tom Sawyer aufhört: Huck, nach dem Abenteuer mit Tom zu Geld gekommen, wohnt bei der Witwe Douglas, die versucht ihn zu «zivilisieren». Von dort wird er von seinem Vater entführt, dem er durch die Vortäuschung seiner eigenen Ermordung entkommt. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt beginnen seine Abenteuer auf dem Mississippi, zusammen mit dem entlaufenen Sklaven Jim… Die Produktion wurde im Februar 2006 auf die hr2-Hörbuch-Bestenliste gewählt Kommentar der...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: How To Tell A Story And Other Essays; How To Tell A Story; The Wounded Soldier.; The Golden Arm.; Mental Telegraphy Again; The Invalid's Story; A Salutation Speech From The Nineteenth Century To The Twentieth; The Battle Hymn Of The Republic,...
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
"The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Letters» of Mark Twain. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. These letters were arranged in six volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their...
One evening in Paris in 1879, The Stomach Club, a society of American writers and artists, gathered to drink well, to eat a good dinner and hear an address by Mark Twain. He was among friends and, according to the custom of the club, he delivered a humorous talk on a subject hardly ever mentioned in public in that day and age. After the meeting, he preserved the manuscript among his papers. It was finally printed in a pamphlet limited to 50 copies 64 years later. The speech satirically dealt...
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. A Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician, and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a «magician» in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks, and the shoring up of a holy...
"Is Shakespeare Dead?" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi. Huckleberry «Huck» Finn and his friend, Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures. Huck is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to «sivilize» him and teach him religion. Finding civilized life confining, his spirits are raised somewhat when Tom Sawyer helps him to...