Марк Твен

One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, for school graduations, at banquets for distinguished visitors, and at events sponsored by charitable…

A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей знаменитый роман Марка Твена об увлекательных приключениях американского мальчика Тома Сойера и его друзей. В книге представлен неадаптированный текст романа, снабженный подробным комментарием.

Гек Финн, сын бездомного пьяницы, – беспризорник и оборванец. Он ночует в пустой бочке из-под сахара, курит трубку, не ходит в школу, бездельничает, и такая жизнь ему нравится. Из всех детей городка дружить с ним отваживается только Том Сойер. После …

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Bringing together 38 tales and sketches, «The 30 000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories» provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career, from «Advice to Young Girls» (a spoof that appeared in 1865, just months before he…

Тому Сойеру двенадцать, и он страстно любит жизнь, игры и шалости – а не школу и не правила, ведь ни в правилах, ни в школе нет жизни. А еще у него острый ум, который особенно пригождается, когда нужно избежать наказания или подшутить над друзьями. Ч…

Марк Твен (настоящее имя Сэмюэл Клеменс) (1835–1910) – известный американский писатель, классик мировой литературы. Роман «Янки из Коннектикута при дворе короля Артура» (1889) может быть с полным правом поставлен в один ряд с лучшими произведениями п…

"A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Viv…

Written at the end of Twain's career, Extracts from Adam's Diary was first published in 1897. Twain's Adam was based on himself.

On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's…