Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and…mehr
Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including the often omitted raftsmen passage. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mark Twain; Introduction with an Introduction by Tom Quirk
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The Portable Mark TwainIntroduction Suggestions for Further Reading Note on Texts Chronology Tales and Sketches The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once (1870) From Roughing It (1872) The Story of the Old Ram Buck Fanshaw's Funeral Letters for Greeley An Encounter with an Interviewer (1874) A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874) from The Innocents Abroad (1869) The Sea of Galilee At the Tomb of Adam from The Gilded Age (1873) Colonel Sellers Entertains Washington Hawkins from A Tramp Abroad (1880) Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn The Hair Trunk from Life on the Mississippi (1883) The River and Its History The Boys' Ambition Perplexing Lessons Continued Perplexities Sunrise on the River The House Beautiful Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) I. Civilizing Huck Miss Watson Tom Sawyer Waits II. The Boys Escape Jim Tom Sawyer's Gang Deep-laid Plans III. A Good Going Over Grace Triumphant One of Tom Sawyer's Lies IV. Huck and the Judge Superstition V. Huck's Father The Fond Parent Reform VI. He Went for Judge Thatcher Huck Decided to Leave Political Economy Thrashing Around VII. Laying for Him Locked in the Cabin Sinking the Body Resting VIII. Sleeping in the Woods Raising the Dead Exploring the Island Finding Jim Jim's Escape Signs Balum IX. The Cave The Floating House X. The Find Old Hank Bunker In Disguise XI. Huck and the Woman The Search Prevarication Going to Goshen XII. Slow Navigation Borrowing Things Boarding the Wreck The Plotters Huntingfor the Boat XIII. Escaping from the Wreck The Watchman Sinking XIV. A General Good Time The Harem French XV. Huck Loses the Raft In the Fog Huck Finds the Raft Trash XVI. Give Us a Rest The Corpse-Maker Crows The Child of Calamity They Both Weaken Little Davy Steps In After the Battle Ed's Adventures Something Queer A Haunted Barrel It Brings a Storm The Barrel Pursues Killed by Lightning Allbright Atones Ed Gets Mad Snake of Boy? Snake Him Out Some Lively Lying Off and Overboard Expectation A White Lie Floating Currency Running by Cairo Swimming Ashore XVII. An Evening Call The Farm in Arkansaw Interior Decorations Stephen Dowling Bots Poetical Effusion XVIII. Col. Grangerford Aristocracy Feuds The Testament Recovering the Raft The Wood-pile Pork and Cabblage XIX. Tying Up Day-times An Astronomical Theory Running a Temperance Revival The Duke of Bridgewater The Troubles of Royalty XX. Huck Explains Laying Out a Campaign Working the Camp-meeting A Pirate at the Camp-meeting The Duke as a Printer XXI. Sword Exercise Hamlet's Soliloquy They Loafed Around Town A Lazy Town Old Boggs Dead XXII. Sherburn Attending the Circus Intoxication in the Ring The Thrilling Tragedy XXIII. Sold! Royal Comparisons Jim Gets Home-sick XXIV. Jim in Royal Robes They Take a Passenger Getting Information Family Grief XXV. Is It Them? Singing the Doxologer Awful Square Funeral Orgies A Bad Investment XXVI. A Pious King The King's Clergy She Asked His Pardon Hiding in the Room Huck Takes the Money XXVII. The Funeral Satisfying Curiosity Suspicious of Huck Quick Sales and Small Profits XXVIII. The Trip to England The Brute! Mary Jane Decided to Leave Huck Parting with Mary Jane Mumps The Opposition Line XXIX. Contested Relationship The King Explains the Loss A Question of Handwriting Digging up the Corpse Huck Escapes XXX. The King Went for Him A Royal Row Powerful Mellow XXXI. Ominous Plans News from Jim Old Recollections A Sheep Story Valuable Information XXXII. Still and Sunday-like Mistaken Identity Up a Stump In a Dilemma XXXIII. A Nigger Stealer Southern Hospitality A Pretty Long Blessing Tar and Feathers XXXIV. The Hut by the Ash Hopper Outrageous Climbing the Lightning Rod Troubled with Witches XXXV. Escaping Property Dark Schemes Discrimination in Stealing A Deep Hole XXXVI. The Lightning Rod His Level Best A Bequest to Posterity A High Figure XXXVII. The Last Shirt Mooning Around Sailing Orders The Witch Pie XXXVIII. The Coat of Arms A Skilled Superintendant Unpleasant Glory A Tearful Subject XXXIX. Rats Lively Bed-Fellows The Straw Dummy XL. Fishing The Vigilance Committee A Lively Run Jim Advises a Doctor XLI. The Doctor Uncle Silas Sister Hotchkiss Aunt Sally in Trouble XLII. Tom Sawyer Wounded The Doctor's Story Tom Confesses Aunt Polly Arrives Hand Out Them Letters CHAPTER THE LAST. Out of Bondage Paying the Captive Yours Truly Huck Finn The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885) from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) The Yankee in Search of Adventures The Holy Fountain Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893) from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) from Following the Equator (1897) from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar fromFollowing the Equator Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar Decimating the Savages To the Person Sitting in Darkenss (1901) Corn-Pone Opinions (1901) Early Days (1907) Speeches Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor (1878) Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims (1881) Advice to Youth (1882) The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (1907) Education and Citizenship (1908) Letters To Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett 1/20/1866 To W.D. Howells 12/8/1874 To W.D. Howells 8/9/1876 To J.H. Burrough 11/1/1876 To the Reverend J.H. Twitchell 1/26/1879 To Orion Clemens and Family 7/21/1883 To Frank A. Nichols Secretary Concord Free Trade Club 3/1/1885 To Jeanette Gilder (not mailed) 5/14/1887 To Andrew Lang early 1890 Fragment of letter to- 1891 To Susan Crane 3/19/1893 To Major Jack Downing 2/26/1899 To W.D. Howells 4/2/1899 To Reverend J.H. Twitchell 2/1902 TO Miss Picard 2/22/1902 To Robert Fulton 5/24/1905 Biographical List of COrrespondents
The Portable Mark TwainIntroduction Suggestions for Further Reading Note on Texts Chronology Tales and Sketches The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once (1870) From Roughing It (1872) The Story of the Old Ram Buck Fanshaw's Funeral Letters for Greeley An Encounter with an Interviewer (1874) A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874) from The Innocents Abroad (1869) The Sea of Galilee At the Tomb of Adam from The Gilded Age (1873) Colonel Sellers Entertains Washington Hawkins from A Tramp Abroad (1880) Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn The Hair Trunk from Life on the Mississippi (1883) The River and Its History The Boys' Ambition Perplexing Lessons Continued Perplexities Sunrise on the River The House Beautiful Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) I. Civilizing Huck Miss Watson Tom Sawyer Waits II. The Boys Escape Jim Tom Sawyer's Gang Deep-laid Plans III. A Good Going Over Grace Triumphant One of Tom Sawyer's Lies IV. Huck and the Judge Superstition V. Huck's Father The Fond Parent Reform VI. He Went for Judge Thatcher Huck Decided to Leave Political Economy Thrashing Around VII. Laying for Him Locked in the Cabin Sinking the Body Resting VIII. Sleeping in the Woods Raising the Dead Exploring the Island Finding Jim Jim's Escape Signs Balum IX. The Cave The Floating House X. The Find Old Hank Bunker In Disguise XI. Huck and the Woman The Search Prevarication Going to Goshen XII. Slow Navigation Borrowing Things Boarding the Wreck The Plotters Huntingfor the Boat XIII. Escaping from the Wreck The Watchman Sinking XIV. A General Good Time The Harem French XV. Huck Loses the Raft In the Fog Huck Finds the Raft Trash XVI. Give Us a Rest The Corpse-Maker Crows The Child of Calamity They Both Weaken Little Davy Steps In After the Battle Ed's Adventures Something Queer A Haunted Barrel It Brings a Storm The Barrel Pursues Killed by Lightning Allbright Atones Ed Gets Mad Snake of Boy? Snake Him Out Some Lively Lying Off and Overboard Expectation A White Lie Floating Currency Running by Cairo Swimming Ashore XVII. An Evening Call The Farm in Arkansaw Interior Decorations Stephen Dowling Bots Poetical Effusion XVIII. Col. Grangerford Aristocracy Feuds The Testament Recovering the Raft The Wood-pile Pork and Cabblage XIX. Tying Up Day-times An Astronomical Theory Running a Temperance Revival The Duke of Bridgewater The Troubles of Royalty XX. Huck Explains Laying Out a Campaign Working the Camp-meeting A Pirate at the Camp-meeting The Duke as a Printer XXI. Sword Exercise Hamlet's Soliloquy They Loafed Around Town A Lazy Town Old Boggs Dead XXII. Sherburn Attending the Circus Intoxication in the Ring The Thrilling Tragedy XXIII. Sold! Royal Comparisons Jim Gets Home-sick XXIV. Jim in Royal Robes They Take a Passenger Getting Information Family Grief XXV. Is It Them? Singing the Doxologer Awful Square Funeral Orgies A Bad Investment XXVI. A Pious King The King's Clergy She Asked His Pardon Hiding in the Room Huck Takes the Money XXVII. The Funeral Satisfying Curiosity Suspicious of Huck Quick Sales and Small Profits XXVIII. The Trip to England The Brute! Mary Jane Decided to Leave Huck Parting with Mary Jane Mumps The Opposition Line XXIX. Contested Relationship The King Explains the Loss A Question of Handwriting Digging up the Corpse Huck Escapes XXX. The King Went for Him A Royal Row Powerful Mellow XXXI. Ominous Plans News from Jim Old Recollections A Sheep Story Valuable Information XXXII. Still and Sunday-like Mistaken Identity Up a Stump In a Dilemma XXXIII. A Nigger Stealer Southern Hospitality A Pretty Long Blessing Tar and Feathers XXXIV. The Hut by the Ash Hopper Outrageous Climbing the Lightning Rod Troubled with Witches XXXV. Escaping Property Dark Schemes Discrimination in Stealing A Deep Hole XXXVI. The Lightning Rod His Level Best A Bequest to Posterity A High Figure XXXVII. The Last Shirt Mooning Around Sailing Orders The Witch Pie XXXVIII. The Coat of Arms A Skilled Superintendant Unpleasant Glory A Tearful Subject XXXIX. Rats Lively Bed-Fellows The Straw Dummy XL. Fishing The Vigilance Committee A Lively Run Jim Advises a Doctor XLI. The Doctor Uncle Silas Sister Hotchkiss Aunt Sally in Trouble XLII. Tom Sawyer Wounded The Doctor's Story Tom Confesses Aunt Polly Arrives Hand Out Them Letters CHAPTER THE LAST. Out of Bondage Paying the Captive Yours Truly Huck Finn The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885) from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) The Yankee in Search of Adventures The Holy Fountain Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893) from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) from Following the Equator (1897) from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar fromFollowing the Equator Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar Decimating the Savages To the Person Sitting in Darkenss (1901) Corn-Pone Opinions (1901) Early Days (1907) Speeches Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor (1878) Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims (1881) Advice to Youth (1882) The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (1907) Education and Citizenship (1908) Letters To Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett 1/20/1866 To W.D. Howells 12/8/1874 To W.D. Howells 8/9/1876 To J.H. Burrough 11/1/1876 To the Reverend J.H. Twitchell 1/26/1879 To Orion Clemens and Family 7/21/1883 To Frank A. Nichols Secretary Concord Free Trade Club 3/1/1885 To Jeanette Gilder (not mailed) 5/14/1887 To Andrew Lang early 1890 Fragment of letter to- 1891 To Susan Crane 3/19/1893 To Major Jack Downing 2/26/1899 To W.D. Howells 4/2/1899 To Reverend J.H. Twitchell 2/1902 TO Miss Picard 2/22/1902 To Robert Fulton 5/24/1905 Biographical List of COrrespondents
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