Mark Twain

„Haklberio Fino nuotykiai“ – JAV rašytojo Marko Tveno 1884 metais išleista knyga, apsakymo „Tomo Sojerio nuotykiai“, tęsinys. Knygoje pasakojama, kaip Haklberis Finas, pasprukęs nuo pikčiurnos auklės ir girtuoklio tėvo, leidžiasi į kelionę Misisipės upe, o jį lydi ištikimas draugas – juodaodis, pabėgęs iš vergijos. …

Tomo Sojerio nuotykiai – JAV rašytojo Marko Tveno, 1876 m. išleista knyga. Tai pasakojimas apie Tomą Sojerį, 12 metų berniuką, gyvenantį pas tetą Poli. Tomas – neramus, nuotykius mėgstantis vaikas, draugaujantis su Heklberiu Finu, nemėgstantis mokslų, tačiau apsukresnis už daugelį miestelio gyventojų. 1917 m. pagal …

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Mark Twain's classic tale of Hank Morgan, a resident of 19th century Hartford Connecticut who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. A classic satire, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" pokes fun at the romanticized notions …

Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American …

Princas ir elgeta – rašytojo Marko Tveno išleista knyga, publikuota 1882 metais. Joje pasakojama 1547 m. istorija, kai Princas Edvardas, susipažinęs su labai panašiu į jį bendraamžiu elgeta Tomu, apsikeičia su juo vietomis. Tomas apsirengęs princo drabužiais apsigyvena Anglijos karaliaus Henriko VIII rūmuose, o …

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements …

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully …

Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of celebrated American author Mark Twain. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life, when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. The content concerns morality and religion and strikes a sarcastic — …

A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer... Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous …

MARK TWAIN, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family, and brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After his father´s death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer, and wrote for his brother´s newspaper. Between 1857 and 1861, he was a pilot on the Mississippi. From …