The Prince and the Pauper (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Prince and the Pauper (Twain Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Prince and the Pauper (Twain Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The Prince and the Pauper (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays and their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is prince, heir to King Henry VIII of England, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But fate intervenes, and their identities become confused. Soon the prince is

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

'When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.' Set in 16th-Century England and following the lives of two young boys, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic and timeless tale

Macmillan Readers Prince and the Pauper The Elementary Reader Without CD(Paperback / softback)

The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

'The Diaries and Adam and Eve' by Mark Twain was originally published as two separate stories and were later combined at Twain's request. 'Extracts from Adam's Diary' was published as a stand-alone book in 1904. In 1905, 'Eve's Diary' was published in the Christmas issue of 'Harper's Bazaar' and

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, and in a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi

The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

New York Times Bestseller!A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children's story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead, creators of the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee. In a hotel in Paris one evening in

The Innocents Abroad (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

'Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.' 'It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.' 'Never tell a lie--except for practice.' This attractive gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of eminently quotable quips. Discover Twain's views on

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' and 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' as well as some delightful excerpts from The

Letters From The Earth (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a 'rich

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were challenged to come up with something more intriguing. Thus, for the only time in his career, Twain collaborated on a

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The classic boyhood adventure tale in a beautiful Deluxe Edition illustrated by Lilli Carre Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Legend Classics) (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Part of the Legend Classics seriesAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had - Ernest HemingwayA nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway

Mark Twain (Powers Ron)(Paperback / softback)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings us the astonishing life story of Mark Twain - America's most influential and beloved author, and the man behind HUCKLEBERRY

The Mysterious Stranger (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's 'dark' period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. At the time this work was written, Twain had suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses.In this antireligious tale,

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century. Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century,

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination In recent years, neither the persistent effort to 'clean up' the racial epithets in

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Detective (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he gets into with his friend

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Mark Twain's sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chronicling the adventures of Sawyer's friend, Huck Finn. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study

Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous episode of the Bible. By giving a voice