Mark Twain

Merry Tales (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the heart of this collection of seven stories is the masterful tale The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. Part autobiographical account of Twain's adventures in the Civil War and part fiction, the story is by turns brimming with satire and a sober indictment of the cruel realities of war. Also included are A Curious Experience, the account of a boy whose fantasy world collides with the real world during war time, and The Invalid's Story, the tale of a man escorting what he believes to be the casket of a beloved friend but for a calamitous mix-up.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411464667
• Artikelnr.: 37870039

Autorenporträt

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.