Great Short Works of Mark TwainSelected works of humour and criticism by a revered American master. Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of scepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still taught to anyone who attends school and is considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Twain's shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled style and bite. |
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THE JUMPING FROG Sketches New and Old | 79 |
THE GREAT LANDSLIDE CASE Roughing It | 96 |
ACCIDENT INSURANCEETC Mark Twains | 111 |
THE STORY OF A SPEECH Mark Twains Speeches | 129 |
Jim BAKERS BLUEJAY A Tramp Abroad 199 | 144 |
LETTER TO THE EARTH Letters from the Earth | 163 |
How to TELL A STORY The 30000 Bequest | 182 |
TO THE PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS Europe | 201 |
THE WAR PRAYER Europe and Elsewhere | 218 |
THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG | 231 |
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER | 278 |
A Chronology | 367 |
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Página 85 - I wonder if there ain't something the matter with him — he 'pears to look mighty baggy, somehow." And he ketched Dan'l by the nap of the neck, and hefted him, and says, " Why, blame my cats, if he don't weigh five pound ! " and turned him upside down, and he belched out a double handful of shot. And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man — he set the frog down and took out after that feller, but he never ketched him.
Página 1 - WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village* on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life...
Página 83 - Well, thish-yer Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tom-cats and all them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.
Página 85 - So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to himself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot — filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. "Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog, and fetched him in, and give him to this feller, and says: "'Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l...
Página 378 - Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leather Stocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series.
Página 95 - Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump ary frog in Calaveras County.
Página 180 - verbal" for "oral"; "precision" for "facility"; "phenomena" for "marvels"; "necessary" for "predetermined"; "unsophisticated" for "primitive"; "preparation" for "expectancy"; "rebuked" for "subdued"; "dependent on" for "resulting from"; "fact" for "condition"; "fact" for "conjecture"; "precaution
Página 81 - Any way that suited the other man would suit him — any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky ; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance ; there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I was just telling you.
Página 233 - I asked for help — in the dark; I was ashamed to beg in the light. I begged of the right man. He gave me twenty dollars — that is to say, he gave me life, as I considered it. He also gave me fortune; for out of that money I have made myself rich at the gaming-table. And finally, a remark which he made to me has remained with me to this day, and has at last conquered me; and in conquering has saved the remnant of my morals: I shall gamble no more.
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Die Kontinuität der Geschichte im amerikanischen apokalyptischen Roman Josef G. Böck Visualização de excertos - 1990 |
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Great Short Works of Mark Twain |
| Autor | Mark Twain |
| Editora | Harper Collins, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0061760854, 9780061760853 |
| Número de páginas | 400 páginas |
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