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полная версияA 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.
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.
полная версияThe 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.
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.
полная версияBringing 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…
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…
полная версияMark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th year, that a lot of the…
Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th year, that a lot of the…
полная версияA 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…
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…
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Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in Sa…
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in Sa…
полная версия«…Есть пословица, что если сойдутся два черта, то ад готов. Этого в особенности можно было ожидать от Батара и Блэка Леклера. Когда они встретились в первый раз, Батар был худым голодным щенком со злыми глазами, и эти глаза тотчас же увидели перед со…
«…Есть пословица, что если сойдутся два черта, то ад готов. Этого в особенности можно было ожидать от Батара и Блэка Леклера. Когда они встретились в первый раз, Батар был худым голодным щенком со злыми глазами, и эти глаза тотчас же увидели перед со…
полная версия«Маргарэт Хэнэн была особой весьма замечательной во всех отношениях, но она в особенности поразила меня, когда я увидал ее в первый раз. Она взвалила себе на плечи стофунтовый мешок зерна и несла его как ни в чем не бывало от телеги к сараю, останови…
«Маргарэт Хэнэн была особой весьма замечательной во всех отношениях, но она в особенности поразила меня, когда я увидал ее в первый раз. Она взвалила себе на плечи стофунтовый мешок зерна и несла его как ни в чем не бывало от телеги к сараю, останови…
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