《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》,又译为《赫克历险记》、《哈克历险记》、《顽童流浪记》,是一部美国著名作家马克·吐温的儿童文学作品。《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》也是美国文学史上相当重要的作品之一。
《汤姆·索亚历险记》是一部美国著名的儿童文学作品,出版于1876年,作者为马克·吐温。作品以距离发行当时30至40年前的美国密苏里州圣彼得斯堡为舞台背景,讲述少年汤姆·索亚与哈克贝里·费恩等伙伴冒险的故事。汤姆是顽童的角色,在美国深受小孩的欢迎。 …
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Mark Twain's classic tale of Hank Morgan, a resident of 19th century Hartford Connecticut who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. A classic satire, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" pokes fun at the romanticized notions …
Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American …
《乞丐王子》,或譯《王子與乞丐》、《王子與貧兒》,是美國作家馬克·吐溫在1882年發表的第一本歷史幻想代表作。這本書的的故事背景在1547年,主角是兩名長相一模一樣的小男孩:居住在倫敦的Offal Court,經常受父親虐待的湯姆·康第;以及亨利八世的兒子愛德華王子。 …
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements …
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully …
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of celebrated American author Mark Twain. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life, when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. The content concerns morality and religion and strikes a sarcastic — …
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 …
MARK TWAIN, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family, and brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After his father´s death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer, and wrote for his brother´s newspaper. Between 1857 and 1861, he was a pilot on the Mississippi. From …