Charles Neider
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Series
Pub. Date
1923
Description
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
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This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Story of the Bad Little Boy," "Cannibalism in the Cars," "A Day at Niagara," "Legend of the Capitoline Venus," "Journalism in Tennessee," "A Curious Dream," "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract," "How I Edited an Agricultural...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1917,1959,1990
Description
Autobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his life, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is a series of brief reflections on 74 years of fame, hard work, and adventure by an icon of American literature. Originally serialized in the North American Review, the United States' oldest literary magazine, the Autobiography of Mark Twain has gone through countless...
16) One-Eyed Jacks
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Two criminals rob a bank. One escapes, but the other is captured by the police. Eventually one criminal becomes a sheriff in Monterey. The other, after having been jailed in a brutal Mexican prison for five years, comes looking for revenge.
17) One-eyed jacks
Pub. Date
1999
Description
An ex-convict finds the partner who betrayed him is now a town sheriff with a wife and daughter.