Mark Twain

Chapters from My Autobiography (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mark Twain bequeathed to publish his autobiography without cuts only a hundred years after his death, and she first saw the light in 2010. Now, finally, many readers can meet this amazingly witty book. Twain's autobiography is very unusual: amusing episodes alternate with sad ones, sparkling jokes give way to serious reasoning - and the large-scale personality of the writer, who has presented the world with many masterpieces, appears before us in all its versatility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ktoczyta.pl
• Seitenzahl: 337
• Altersempfehlung: ab 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788382176490
• Artikelnr.: 59782357

Autorenporträt

Mark Twain (30 November 1835- 21 April 1910) was born in Florida, United States. He was a Humorist, author, and lecturer. He grew up in Hannibal and later moved to California. In a California mining camp, he heard the story that he published in 1865 and made popular as the title story of his first novel, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, in 1867. From his humorous stories, The Innocents Abroad (1869) and Roughing It in 1872, to his appearance as a riverboat captain in Life on the Mississippi in 1883, through his adventure stories of childhood, he got a worldwide audience, mainly for Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1885), known as the masterpieces of American fiction. The ironic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889. His eldest daughter passed away in 1896, his wife in 1904, and another daughter in 1909. He expressed his depression about the human character in such late works as the after-death published Letters from the Earth (1962).