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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.409
EAN num: 9780140434170
ISBN number: 0140434178
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: September 01, 1994
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
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Studio: Penguin Classics
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Mark Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skillfully adapted, extended, or satirized literary conventions--guided only by his unruly imagination. These pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention and his extraordinary emotional range.
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Samuel Clemens still stuns in whatever form he chooses--the fable, the essay, the speech, sketch, or one-liner ('The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.'). This fine collection features several hilarious pieces, including a story in the early, lighter section by 'Grandfather Twain'--about 'a bad little boy, whose name was Jim--though, if you will notice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called James in your Sunday-school books.... He didn't have a sick mother either--a sick mother who was pious and had the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in the grave and be at rest, but for the strong love she bore her boy ...' In his later years, though parody and bleak humour abound, Twain extended his range from animal rights to anti-imperialism, from bitterness to despair. 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' remains a powerful, immediate indictment of America's colonial annexation of the Philippines. His suggested flag for the province? Just the usual one, 'with the white stripes painted grey and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.'
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This is a varied collection of the writings of American's greatest humorist. It contains many of his most well- known short pieces from the devastating critique of Fenimore - Cooper to 'The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg'. It contains newspaper reportage, short stories, literary essays, excerpts from his books.
In almost all that he writes his great humour keeps us smiling, laughing and reading.
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