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Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens. Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead, he got poor fast,...
23) Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century
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English
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Presents a narrative history of the United States from 1890 to 1910, exploring such major themes as nationalism, racism, industrialization, and imperialism as reflected in the actions and writings of the era's two most famous figures.
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2015.
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English
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Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant...
Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Mark Twain: Man in White brings the legendary author's twilight years vividly to life, offering surprising insights, including an intimate, tender look at his family life. Includes rare and never-published Twain photos, delightful anecdotes, and memorable quotes, including numerous recovered Twainisms.
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HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
p1992
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English
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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.
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Library of America volume 200
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2010
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English
36) Bridge of time
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English
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Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names, they have both learned that their parents are getting divorced, and while on their class trip to San Francisco they go off on their own to talk about the divorces and fall asleep, but when they wake up they find the Golden Gate Bridge gone, and they meet a man named Sam Clemens who is on the run from a mysterious stranger.
37) The Yearling
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Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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.
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English
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"John Hay, famous as Lincoln's private secretary and later as secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for being 'Mark Twain,' grew up fifty miles apart, on the banks of the Mississippi River, in the same rural antebellum stew of race and class and want. This shared history helped draw them together when they first met as up-and-coming young men in the late 1860s, and their mutual admiration...
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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Taking place in the 1990's, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck's long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less intelligent, sidekicks.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain was a lifelong creator and keeper of scrapbooks. He took them with him everywhere and filled them with souvenirs, pictures, and articles about his books and performances. But in time, he grew tired of the lost glue, rock-hard paste, and the swearing that resulted from the standard scrapbook process. So, he came up with the idea of printing thin strips of glue on the pages to make updates neat and easy to do. In 1872, he patented his “self-pasting”...
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