Автор Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Автор:
- Twain Mark
- Жанр:
- Детские приключения
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 49
- Просмотров:
- 1326
- Дата добавления:
- 2015-07-10
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South. The story is set in the town of "St Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up.
Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий (Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper)
- Автор:
- Twain Mark
- Жанр:
- Сказки
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 152
- Просмотров:
- 1264
- Дата добавления:
- 2015-07-21
Эта детская книга, сюжет которой взят из средневековой английской истории, написана американским классиком XIX века. Марк Твен удивительно тонко стилизует английский язык под язык Старой Англии. После этой книги вам будет легче переходить к Шекспиру, не говоря уж о понимании исторических фильмов на английском! Адаптировали: Андрей Бессонов и Алексей Попович
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Автор:
- Twain Mark
- Жанр:
- Исторические приключения
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 79
- Просмотров:
- 1242
- Дата добавления:
- 2015-03-18
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Автор:
- Twain Mark
- Жанр:
- Детская проза
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 70
- Просмотров:
- 1034
- Дата добавления:
- 2015-03-18
Book Description Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers — from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger — Huckleberry Finn, like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.
Tri Noveloj
- Автор:
- Twain Mark
- Жанр:
- Юмористическая проза
- Язык книги:
- Кол-во страниц:
- 7
- Просмотров:
- 504
- Дата добавления:
- 2017-03-17
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Автор:
- Mark Twain
- Жанр:
- Современная зарубежная литература
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 117
- Просмотров:
- 199
- Дата добавления:
- 2022-03-21
Description
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is one of Mark Twain’s most enduring novels. During a stay at a modern-day English castle, the narrator meets a mysterious stranger. The stranger, Hank Morgan, is an engineer from Connecticut, and proceeds to weave a satirical, biting, and hilarious tale of how he traveled back in time to find himself in the court of the legendary King Arthur. There he uses his modern-day knowledge to convince the locals that he’s a powerful magician. As the book progresses, Hank modernizes—and Americanizes—the lives of the locals.
Twain’s talent for humor and satire are on full display in Yankee, and he doesn’t waste the opportunity to use Hank as a mouthpiece for his views on things like politics, capitalism, and justice. Many consider it to be his best work.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Автор:
- Mark Twain
- Жанр:
- Современная зарубежная литература
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 109
- Просмотров:
- 169
- Дата добавления:
- 2022-03-21
Description
One of the great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his travels with Jim, an escaped slave. Roundly criticised by contemporary reviewers for its colorful and literal language and even banned by several libraries, it sealed its historical importance in part by being one of the first novels to be written entirely in American vernacular.
While Huck Finn is, on its face, an adventure tale for younger readers, it’s also a cutting satire and a nuanced examination of racism and morality. Hemingway called it “the best book we’ve had.”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Автор:
- Mark Twain
- Жанр:
- Современная зарубежная литература
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 70
- Просмотров:
- 132
- Дата добавления:
- 2022-04-02
Description
The irrepressible Tom Sawyer drives his Aunt Polly to distraction; she can’t decide whether to cry or laugh at his antics. He fights, falls in love, and finds adventure with two of his friends, one of whom will later become famous in his own right. Along the way he attends his own funeral, wins the girl by falsely confessing to something she did, and, most famously, convinces most of the boys in town to pay him for the privilege of painting his aunt’s fence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was Mark Twain’s first novel written solely by himself. Although he was already a well-known author, it was for autobiographical sketches (The Innocents Abroad) and novels written with others (The Gilded Age). In writing about Tom, Twain drew on his childhood growing up in Hannibal, Missouri, infusing the story with his usual biting satire and social commentary. In Tom Sawyer and his friends, Twain created young men who would long outlive him. Not without controversy over the years due to its language and negative depiction of a Native American, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is arguably Twain’s most endearing, and enduring, work.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- Автор:
- Mark Twain
- Жанр:
- Современная зарубежная литература
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 149
- Просмотров:
- 117
- Дата добавления:
- 2022-03-17
Description
The essential facts regarding Joan of Arc are well known. A young teenage girl hears voices that tell her she will deliver France from England’s oppression during the Hundred Years War. She manages to take her message to the dauphin, who after some persuasion places her at the head of his army. That army promptly lifts the siege of Orléans, throws the English out of the Loire valley, hands them another significant defeat at Patay, and marches all the way to Reims, where the dauphin is crowned King Charles VII. After an ill-advised and short-lived truce, Joan is captured by the Burgundians—French nobility who have aligned themselves with the English—and they try her for heresy and burn her at the stake.
Twain first became fascinated with Joan as a teenager. When he finally decided to write a book about her, he researched it for a dozen years and spent two more years writing it. It was, in his words, “the best of all my books,” and became his last finished novel. Although a work of fiction, Twain’s research was time well spent: the known facts of Joan’s life, and especially the trial, are very accurate in their depiction. To tell Joan’s story, Twain invented a memoirist, Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of her real-life page, Louis de Contes. Twain has the fictional de Conte grow up with Joan, and so he is able to tell her story from her early childhood all the way through the trial and execution. The result is the story of one of the great women in history told by one of history’s great storytellers.
The Prince and the Pauper
- Автор:
- Mark Twain
- Жанр:
- Современная зарубежная литература
- Язык книги:
- Английский
- Кол-во страниц:
- 69
- Просмотров:
- 110
- Дата добавления:
- 2022-03-18
Description
The Prince and the Pauper remains one of Twain’s more popular novels, having been adapted many times for the stage, screen, and elsewhere. When Tom Canty, a young pauper in London, meets Prince Edward, the two switch clothes and assume the other’s identity. Tom then learns the life of royalty, while the true prince discovers the troubles of commoners.
As usual, Twain delivers both humor and social commentary in abundance. Although aimed at children, Pauper provides moral and social criticism of topics like the justice system and inequality, and deals with themes which appeal to readers of all ages.
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