Mark Twain In Paradise
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Mark Twain In Paradise
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Author : Donald Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2006-03-01
Mark Twain In Paradise written by Donald Hoffmann and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in the world, Bermuda offered the writer a refuge from his harried and sometimes sad existence on the mainland, and this island paradise called him back another seven times. Clemens found that Bermuda’s beauty, pace, weather, and company were just the medicine he needed, and its seafaring culture with few connections to the outside world appealed to his love of travel by water. This book is the first comprehensive study of Clemens’s love affair with Bermuda, a vivid depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. Donald Hoffmann has culled and clarified passages from Mark Twain’s travel pieces, letters, and unpublished autobiographical dictation—with cross-references to his fiction and infrequently cited short pieces—to create a little-known view of the author at leisure on his fantasy island. Mark Twain in Paradise sheds light on both Clemens’s complex character and the topography and history of the islands. Hoffmann has plumbed the voluminous Mark Twain scholarship and Bermudian archives to faithfully re-create turn-of-the-century Bermuda, supplying historical and biographical background to give his narrative texture and depth. He offers insight into Bermuda’s natural environment, traditional stone houses, and romantic past, and he presents dozens of illustrations, both vintage and new, showing that much of what Mark Twain described can still be seen today. Hoffmann also provides insight into the social circles Clemens moved in—and sometimes collected around himself. When visiting the islands, he rubbed shoulders with the likes of socialist Upton Sinclair and multimillionaire Henry H. Rogers; with Woodrow Wilson and his lover, socialite Mary Peck; as well as with the young girls to whom he enjoyed playing grandfather. “You go to heaven if you want to,” Mark Twain wrote from Bermuda in 1910 during his long last visit. “I’d druther stay here.” And because much of what Clemens enjoyed in the islands is still available to experience today, visitors to Bermuda can now have America’s favorite author as their guide. Mark Twain in Paradise is an unexpected addition to the vast literature by and about Mark Twain and a work of travel literature unlike any other.
Summer In Paradise
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Author : Hamilton Hay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Summer In Paradise written by Hamilton Hay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The Diary Of Adam And Eve
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-22
The Diary Of Adam And Eve written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-22 with categories.
✆A translated and revised work IDEAL FOR LOVERS OF A GOOD READ → Quality works to enjoy on your kindle. With his usual wit and charm, Mark Twain 1835-1910), one of the greatest writers of our time, introduces us to the history of the Garden of Eden. Here are the fun and enjoyable diaries of Adam, the legendary father, and Eve, the mother of the human race. Have the relationships between the female and male sex always been the same? Twain answers this question by introducing us to our father Adam constantly pestered by the curiosity of his female companion who, with his inquisitive nature and his particular and shrewd way of seeing everything around him, names and imposes names on all places, beings and animals. the garden. It is Eva who discovers "(before her partner) not only fire or smoke but also feelings as universal as love, the smell and the beauty of things ... Also, of course, the love and attraction to her lazy and sometimes rough companion who has no choice but to come to a single and possible conclusion: "where she was, there was paradise." Twain thus reminds us of the moving and secular myth of Paradise or Garden of Eden, masterfully using humor, sarcasm, incisive intelligence and subtle touches of pathos to show us the ancient weaknesses and ways of being of human nature. " About the Author: Mark Twain was a tireless adventurer who found inspiration for his literary works in his own life. Considered like the American Dickens, his popular and humorous style of the early days, and his irony and sarcasm of his latest literary productions, contrasted the idealized world of childhood, innocent and at the same time mischievous, with a disenchanted conception of the adult man, the man of the industrial age, of the golden age, deceived by morality and civilization.
Twain Stanley Enter Paradise
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Author : Oscar Hijuelos
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-03
Twain Stanley Enter Paradise written by Oscar Hijuelos and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times "Editor's Choice"A Vanity Fair "Best Book for History Buffs"An Amazon Best Book of November 2015A David Baldacci Top Pick for Fall 2015A Boston Globe Fall 2015 PickAn EW.com Blockbuster Novel PickOne of Newsday's "20 Best Books to Read this Fall"One of Men's Journal's "7 Best Books of November" TWAIN & STANLEY ENTER PARADISE, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant historical record of their relationship as a starting point for a more detailed fictional account. It was a labor of love for Hijuelos, who worked on the project for more than ten years, publishing other novels along the way but always returning to Twain and Stanley; indeed, he was still revising the manuscript the day before his sudden passing in 2013. The resulting novel is a richly woven tapestry of people and events that is unique among the author's works, both in theme and structure. Hijuelos ingeniously blends correspondence, memoir, and third-person omniscience to explore the intersection of these Victorian giants in a long vanished world. From their early days as journalists in the American West, to their admiration and support of each other's writing, their mutual hatred of slavery, their social life together in the dazzling literary circles of the period, and even a mysterious journey to Cuba to search for Stanley's adoptive father, TWAIN & STANLEY ENTER PARADISE superbly channels two vibrant but very different figures. It is also a study of Twain's complex bond with Mrs. Stanley, the bohemian portrait artist Dorothy Tennant, who introduces Twain and his wife to the world of séances and mediums after the tragic death of their daughter. A compelling and deeply felt historical fantasia that utilizes the full range of Hijuelos' gifts, TWAIN & STANLEY ENTER PARADISE stands as an unforgettable coda to a brilliant writing career.
Mark Twain S Hawaii
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Author : John Richard Stephens
language : en
Publisher: TwoDot
Release Date : 2022
Mark Twain S Hawaii written by John Richard Stephens and has been published by TwoDot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through Paradise, combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain's journey through the region just as he experienced it in 1866. The heavily illustrated book highlights Twain's humor, travel in the 19th century, history, social commentary, and the exotic locale. Mark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless--his observations on Hawaii, some of which formed part of the classic Roughing It are collected here in an authoritative and entertaining volume for Twain fans and Hawaii enthusiasts.
Report From Paradise
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Report From Paradise written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with American fiction categories.
"Mark Twain is Mark Twain and reading these classic authors is always worthwhile. If his books were bread after all these years well it would still be fresh and fragrant as fresh from the oven, so perfect is his style. This representation of the afterlife is also quite modern since not only are infinite worlds saved by Our Lord imagined, but that the Earth is nothing but a trifle compared to the vastness of the firmament and that in Heaven they have other things to do than keep up with the..."--Goodreads
Mark Twain And The South
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Author : Arthur G. Pettit
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Mark Twain And The South written by Arthur G. Pettit and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.
The Life Of Mark Twain
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Author : Gary Scharnhorst
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2022-01-21
The Life Of Mark Twain written by Gary Scharnhorst and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family’s extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age 74. During these years Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, and endures the loss of two daughters and his wife. It is also during this time that he writes some of his darkest, most critical works; among these include Pudd’nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective; Following the Equator; No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger; and portions of his Autobiography.
Captain Stormfield S Visit To Heaven Annotated
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06
Captain Stormfield S Visit To Heaven Annotated written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with categories.
The old godless captain Stormfield believed neither in God, nor in hell, nor in paradise, nor in hell. Imagine his surprise when, after his death, flying through the bottomless depths of space, he nevertheless arrived in paradise. He was even more surprised when he became acquainted with the local order - it was too painfully different from the stories about the paradise of priests on Earth.
Mark Twain And The Brazen Serpent
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Author : Doug Aldridge
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-02-19
Mark Twain And The Brazen Serpent written by Doug Aldridge and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.