Марк Твен

Пригоди Гекльберрі Фінна — популярний роман, написаний Марком Твеном, вперше опублікований в грудні 1884. Зазвичай визнається найкращим твором Марка Твена та одним з претендентів на звання Великого американського роману. Написаний від першої особи Гекльберрі Фінна, друга Тома Соєра та оповідача двох наступних книжок …

Пригоди Гекльберрі Фінна — популярний роман, написаний Марком Твеном, вперше опублікований в грудні 1884. Зазвичай визнається найкращим твором Марка Твена та одним з претендентів на звання Великого американського роману. Написаний від першої особи Гекльберрі Фінна, друга Тома Соєра та оповідача двох наступних книжок …

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its …

Following the Equator is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a …

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain that recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. The novel is presented as a translation of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's …

"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches. Twain actually encouraged it to be read as a …

A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer... Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous …