Mark Twain
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
In Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Hank Morgan awakes from a blow to the head only to find that he has been mysteriously transported back in time. It is early medieval England, the time of King Arthur and Hank is taken to the Camelot castle by a Knight of the King's. Ridiculed for his funny manner and dress sense, and sentenced to burn at the stake, Hank recovers through an incredible stroke of luck,
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Language
English
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Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 21
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This volume presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Eschewing chronology and organization, Twain simply meanders from observation to anecdote and between past and present. There are reminiscences from his youth of landscapes, rural idylls, and Tom Sawyeresque japes; acid-etched profiles of friends and enemies, from his "fiendish" Florentine...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition...
11) Mark Twain
Author
Series
Graphic classics volume 8
Publisher
Eureka Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious stranger, a ghost story & ten more great tales!" -- Cover.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this sixth volume in The Library of America's authoritative collection of Mark Twain's writing, America's greatest humorist emerges in a surprising range of roles: as the savvy satirist of "The Gilded Age, " the brilliant plotter of its inventive sequel, "The American Claimant, " and, in two Tom Sawyer novels, as the acknowledged master revisiting his best-loved characters.
17) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
A remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers. The very fact that Mark Twain wrote this book and wrote it the way he did is a powerful testimony to the attractive power of the Catholic Church's saints. This is a book that really will inform and inspire.