Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, noto maggiormente con lo pseudonimo di Mark Twain, nacque il 30 novembre 1835 in Missouri. Dopo la morte del padre all'età di undici anni, Twain abbandonò la scuola per sostenere economicamente la sua famiglia, lavorando come stampatore e compositore e contribuendo ad articoli per il giornale del fratello Orion. La sua vita avventurosa lo portò a diventare un abile pilota di battelli a vapore sul fiume Mississippi, a tentare la fortuna nell'estrazione dell'oro in California e a viaggiare in Sud America alla ricerca di una fortuna.

La carriera letteraria di Twain decollò durante il suo periodo come giornalista, quando scrisse "La rana saltatrice celebre della Contea di Calaveras", che gli valse l'attenzione nazionale. Adottò lo pseudonimo Mark Twain, derivato dall'urlo dei battelli a vapore che indicavano due braccia d'acqua, durante la Guerra Civile. Come scrittore di viaggi, Twain acquisì fama per il suo umorismo e la sua satira, guadagnandosi elogi da critici, coetanei e figure importanti come presidenti, artisti ed aristocrazia europea.

Twain è noto principalmente per i suoi romanzi Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn (1885) e Le avventure di Tom Sawyer (1876), con il primo spesso indicato come "il Grande Romanzo Americano". La sua scrittura, ispirata dalle sue esperienze infantili, creò personaggi duraturi che colpirono i lettori in tutto il mondo. Nonostante il suo successo, Twain lottò finanziariamente a causa di cattivi investimenti, tra cui il Compositore Paige. dichiarò bancarotta ma alla fine superò le sue difficoltà finanziarie con l'aiuto di Henry Huttleston Rogers.

La connessione di Twain con il cosmo è notevole, poiché nacque quando la cometa di Halley stava passando dalla Terra e morì al suo ritorno nel 1910. È spesso considerato il "maggior umorista americano della sua epoca" e "il padre della letteratura americana". La sua eredità continua ad influenzare la letteratura moderna, con Ernest Hemingway che afferma che "tutta la letteratura moderna deriva da questo unico libro", riferendosi a Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn. La vita e l'opera di Twain rimangono una testimonianza del suo spirito avventuroso, abilità osservative e abilità narrative.
Autobiography Of Mark Twain Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 1925
2 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 1925
3 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 1925
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876
2 The Annotated Huckleberry Finn 1884
3 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885
4 Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894
5 Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896
6 Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians and Other Unfinished Stories 1989
Diaries Of Adam and Eve Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Extracts from Adam's Diary 1904
2 Eve's Diary 1906
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Gilded Age 1873
2 A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage 1876
3 The Prince and the Pauper 1881
4 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889
5 The American Claimant 1892
6 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893
7 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 1896
8 A Double Barrelled Detective Story 1902
9 A Dog's Tale 1904
10 King Leopold's Soliloquy 1905
11 A Horse's Tale 1907
12 The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass 1928
13 The Adventures of Colonel Sellers 1965
14 Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven 2008
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 The Jumping Frog 1865
2 Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893
3 The Mysterious Stranger 1916
4 Bakers Bluejay Yarn 1986
5 The Stolen White Elephant 2017
6 The Invalid's Story 2019
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories 1867
2 Advice to Little Girls and Other Stories 1867
3 Eye Openers 1871
4 Screamers 1871
5 Mark Twain's Sketches 1872
6 Sketches New and Old 1875
7 The Stolen White Elephant 1882
8 Merry Tales 1892
9 The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note, and Other New Stories 1893
10 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories 1900
11 Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories 1904
12 Punch, Brothers, Punch 1989
13 The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 1906
14 The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories 1916
15 The Devil's Race-Track 2005
16 Who Is Mark Twain? 2009
Collezioni
# Titolo Anno
1 Punch, Brothers, Punch 1989
2 Helpful Hints for Good Living 1991
3 The Humor of Twain 1999
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Mark Twain's Letters From Hawaii 1866
2 The Innocents Abroad 1869
3 The Innocents at Home 1869
4 Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography; and, First Romance 1871
5 Roughing It 1872
6 The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache 1880
7 A Tramp Abroad 1880
8 On the Decay of the Art of Lying 1880
9 Life on the Mississippi 1883
10 How to Tell a Story and Other Essays 1897
11 Following the Equator 1897
12 English as She is Taught 1900
13 What is Man? and Other Essays 1906
14 My Debut as a Literary Person 1906
15 Christian Science 1907
16 Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909
17 Mark Twain's Speeches 1910
18 Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews 2006
19 Mark Twain on Religion 1970
20 The Bible According to Mark Twain 1995
21 Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (With: Gary Scharnhorst) 2006
22 Letters from the Earth 2009
The Year of the Cat Books
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1 A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe) 2020
2 A Cat of a Different Color 2020
3 A Cat of Perfect Taste 2020
4 A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore) 2020
5 A Cat of Disdainful Looks (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rudyard Kipling, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye) 2020
6 A Cat of Disdainful Looks 2020
7 A Cat of Strange Lands (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders) 2020
8 A Cat of Strange Lands 2020
9 A Cat of Cozy Situations 2020
10 A Cat of Cozy Situations (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ed Gorman, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dean Wesley Smith, W.W. Jacobs, Mary A. Turzillo, Dory Crowe) 2020
11 A Cat of Heroic Heart 2020
12 A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe) 2020
13 A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities 2021
14 A Cat of Heroic Heart (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce) 2020
15 A Cat of Fantastic Whims 2021
16 A Cat of Roving Nature (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Emile Zola, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dory Crowe, C.J. Erick, Sylvia Warner) 2020
17 A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Joan Aiken, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo) 2021
18 A Cat of Feral Instincts 2021
19 A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce) 2021
20 A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell) 2021
21 A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore) 2021
Oxford Bookworms: Stage 1 Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Elephant Man (By: Tim Vicary) 1983
2 The Phantom of the Opera ( By: Tricia Hedge) 1999
3 The Phantom of the Opera ( By: Jennifer Bassett) 1999
4 Pocahontas (By: Tim Vicary) 2000
History Highlights Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Louisiana Purchase (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
2 The Oregon Trail (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
3 The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Book 1 (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
4 The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Book 2 (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
5 The Civil War Anaconda Plan (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
6 The Mississippi River (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
7 Mark Twain and the Mississippi River (With: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
8 The Statue of Liberty (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
9 The Astorians (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2020
10 Steamboats Changed America (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2023
11 Alaska History Highlights (By: Bill Wiemuth, Laura Sable) 2023
12 The Steamboat “Delta Queen” (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2023
13 Invaded (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2024
14 Explore Alaska with John Muir (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2024
15 Florida History Highlights (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2024
16 The Pathway to Civil War (By: Bill Wiemuth) 2025
Mark Twain Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Atlantic Harvest: Memoirs of the Atlantic 1947
2 50 Great American Short Stories 1963
3 21 Great Stories 1969
4 Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls 1985
5 Unknown California 1985
6 Famous and Curious Animal Stories 1989
7 Great Baseball Stories 1990
8 Spells of Enchantment 1991
9 Prose and Poetry of the American West 1991
10 The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror 1992
11 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1993
12 The Screaming Skull 1994
13 Writing New York 1998
14 The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2007
15 San Francisco Noir 2 2009
16 50 Classic Novellas 2011
17 Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed 2011
18 A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing 2013
19 Citing Atheists: Quotes of Agnosticism, Non-Theism, Skepticism, Irreligion, Free Thought, and Philosophy 2015
20 The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories 2015
21 Favorite Love Stories 2017
22 The Further Crossovers of Sherlock Holmes 2017
23 Living to Tell the Horrid Tales 2017
24 The Driftless Reader 2017
25 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018
26 Animals We Love 2019
27 American Midnight 2019
28 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories 2019
29 A Cat of Disdainful Looks 2020
30 Classic Cat Stories 2020
31 The Anthology of the Greatest Sci-Fi Classics 2022
32 Slavery Exposed: The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels 2023
33 The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories 2023
34 North vs. South Collection 2023