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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.

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.

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…

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…

Полный вариант заголовка: «The busy body : a comedy : adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden / by Mrs. Centlivre».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Code diplomatique : Pt. 1 : precede d'un discours preliminaire / par Portiez (de l'Oise), Tribun».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Code diplomatique : Pt. 2 : precede d'un discours preliminaire / par Portiez (de l'Oise), Tribun».

Примечание: Морские и военные мемуары Полный вариант заголовка: «Naval and military memoirs of Great Britain : Vol. 4 : from 1727 to 1783 : in 6 volumes / by Robert Beatson».

Примечание: Морские и военные мемуары Полный вариант заголовка: «Naval and military memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783 : Vol. 5 : in 6 volumes / by Robert Beatson».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels among the Arab tribes inhabiting the countries east of Syria and Palestine, including a journey from Nazareth to the mountains beyond the Dead Sea, and from thence through the plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus…

Примечание: Кларисса Гарлоу.

Примечание: Кларисса Гарлоу.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels in Nubia : with maps, &c. / by the late John Lewis Burckhardt ; published by the association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels in Syria and the Holy Land / by the late John Lewis Burckhardt ; published by the Association for promoting the discovery of the Interior parts of Africa».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The poetical works of William Cowper. Vol. 2. The Task / edited with a memoir by John Bruce».