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Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works. A series of 24 lectures on a college course level.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A curated collection of Mark Twain's autobiographical writings with particular attention to texts reflecting his early life. Our edition is significantly less apparatus-heavy than the UC Press edition and also includes various additional writings. R. Kent Rasmussen contributes a substantial introduction, summarizing the most interesting elements from modern scholarship surrounding the history of Twain's autobiography and his long-lasting appeal over...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write "A Family Sketch" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
p1992
Language
English
Description
Presents the complete original radio broadcast by Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company celebrating Twain's genius and cantankerous spirit with humor and period music, and a classic Keillor monologue on Twain's cherished themes.
13) The Yearling
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Roughing it: Young Sam Clemens travels out west with his brother on a journey filled with games, storms, and gold rush disasters.
Yearling: A classic coming-of-age story in which a boy from a poor rural family adopts an orphaned fawn with which he develops a loving bond.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has...
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