Серия "Mark Twain Library"

Mark Twain&apos;s humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the «vigorous new vernacular» of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, <I>Roughing It </I>was greeted as a work of «wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration» whose satiric humor made «pretension and false dignity ridiculous.» Meticulously restored...

Based on Mark Twain&apos;s 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother&apos;s diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It...

o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902 o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of «Villagers of 1840-3,» Mark Twain&apos;s astounding feat of memory o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain&apos;s early life in Missouri Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be...

"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." Mark Twain’s «tale» became his first historical novel, <i>The Prince and the Pauper,</i> published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The prince...

This is the <i>only</i> authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the «The Mysterious Stranger.» Albert Bigelow Paine&apos;s edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.

This is&#160;Mark Twain&#39;s first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world&#39;s best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain&#39;s own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. &quot;Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred,&quot; he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be...