The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette. The story is a delightful spoof of the mystery genre, then in its infancy, introducing the reader to Sherlock Holmes as he has never been seen before or since. Far from his usual elegant L…

Чтение оригинальных произведений – простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» – это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычны…

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.

The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn», «Mark Twain» (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a majo…

The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the wa…

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 …

"On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis" 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'…

Аудиокнига предназначена для развития навыков аудирования и чтения и адресована учащимся 6–7 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, лицеев, гимназий, студентам колледжей и неязыковых вузов, а также лицам, изучающим английский язык са…

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda.

A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction to live and breathe ― as Twain's own fiction always does. In "How to Tell a Story," the title piece,…

Аудиоприложение к одноименной книге. Книга представляет собой адаптацию одного из лучших романов знаменитого американского писателя Марка Твена (1835–1910) «Приключения Тома Сойера». Это увлекательный рассказ о весёлом и сообразительном мальчишке из …

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A great writing by Mark Twain based on the short story of classic humour.

The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy” of its host, whom it is supposed to “improve” but only tyrannizes with gusto while refusing to praise the host for anythi…

Typical Mark Twain slightly caustic, complex humor. Six of Mark Twain's recollections his early experiences in newspaper work on topics such as his first editorship at age 13, the weaponry needed to edit a newspaper in Tennessee, a character study, a…