Марк Твен

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…

Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey d…

Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was very enamored with his daughter, Susi, and remained so up to her untimely death at age 24 in 1896. In 1875, at the age of 3, she had written her first letter to Santa Claus. As a writer and loving fathe…

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 …

Признанный классик американского юмора умеет заинтриговать, рассмешить, заставить задуматься и узнать в его героях себя или соседа. Теперь прочитать его рассказы смогут даже те, кто не очень уверенно читает по-английски. Серия «Английский в адаптации…

"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'…

The book bears no relationship to Twain's actual life. The two short stories present fictional characters who are supposedly part of Twain's lineage.

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,…

"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by Ame…

"A Horse's Tale" is a novel written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry.

“Twain güçlü bir edebiyatçı. Adeta yanan ateşin yanında, örsünün başındaki bir nalbant gibi. Sertçe vuruyor ve her darbesiyle iz bırakıyor.” – Maksim Gorki Ahmak Wilson’ın Trajedisi, genç bir köle kadının 1/32 oranında siyahi olan çocuğunu köle olmak…

Mark Twain’den iyi bir yaşam için yararlı ipuçları Bu kitap, ince zekâsı, hazırcevaplığı ve yaratıcı mizahıyla daima en çok sevilen ve en çok okunan yazarlardan olan Mark Twain’in kitaplarından, yazışmalarından ve konuşmalarından derlenmiş yüzlerce …

Wiek XVI, Anglia. Tom pochodzi z najbiedniejszej dzielnicy Londynu. Jego codzienność to głód, ciężka praca i walka o przetrwanie. Edward jest z kolei następcą tronu, wychowywanym w luksusach na królewskim dworze. Łączy ich jedno: niemalże identyczny …