Mark Twain
Author
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
722 p. illus. 22 cm.
Description
Contains 136 stories and sketches written by Mark Twain between the years of 1862 and 1904. Thirty of these selections have been taken from the following books: Roughing it; Innocents abroad; A tramp abroad; Life on the Mississippi; and, Following the equator.
71) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (10 hr.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm. + 1 set of earbuds + 1 AAA battery.
Description
In this sequel to Tom Sawyer, Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi with an escaped slave.
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
20 sound discs (ca. 25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain once wrote. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The...
75) James: a novel
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Appears on list
Description
"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (7 p.)
Description
"Hal Holbrook has been performing Mark Twain tonight! for 47 years, enthralling audiences with an astonishing portrayal of the person Hemingway called America's first great author ... After over 2000 performances of Mark Twain tonight!, Hal Holbrook remains as passionate as ever about the life-long role. 'Mark Twain is my verbal machine gun, ' he says, 'to shoot down hypocrisy, fools and swindlers.' As the performances on this CD make abundantly clear,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1053 p. ; 21 cm.
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.