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Mississippi Writings
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Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Mark Twain Mississippi Writings Loa 5
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 1982-11-01
Mark Twain Mississippi Writings Loa 5 written by Mark Twain and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-11-01 with Fiction categories.
This Library of America collection presents Twain's best-known works, including Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, together in one volume for the first time. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions and perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began Huckleberry Finn the same year Tom Sawyer was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to Life on the Mississippi. The river in Twain’s descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty and power, seductive calms and treacherous shoals, pleasure and terror, an image of the societies it touches and transports. Each of these works is filled with comic and melodramatic adventure, with horseplay and poetic evocations of scenery, and with characters who have become central to American mythology—not only Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in Puddn’head Wilson, one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. With each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement and despair, until with Puddn’head Wilson, high jinks and games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of four works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the “strong brown god.” For Twain, the river represented the complex and often contradictory possibilities in his own and his nation’s life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west with its comforts and proprieties, discovers and contends with the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, and promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot—an experience recounted in Life on the Mississippi—move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play and boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Mississippi Writings
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Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Mississippi Gumbo
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Author : Robert E. Jones
language : en
Publisher: 1st Book Library
Release Date : 2003-10
Mississippi Gumbo written by Robert E. Jones and has been published by 1st Book Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10 with Mississippi categories.
This book contains a unique collection of amazing true stories from Mississippi, also a hilarious play, a screwy convention of the Do Nuthin Party, World War II adventures, wild escapades, and miscellaneous other things such as a so-called opera, "Tragedy of Peggy O'Neal." You will read about Col. Charles Glen Collins' encounters with King Edward VII, George V, Churchill, Kitchener, Faulkner, Caruso, and Eugen Sandow, world's strongest man. Collins was the great grandfather of Bill Laimbeer of basketball fame. Another story involves two young black teenagers in reconstruction days in South Mississippi who survived assassination attempts to bravely testify against a white murderer. The murderer later escaped after his conviction and brought a reign of terror to his community until an unarmed Baptist sheriff faced him down and talked him into surrendering. After which, the sheriff and his feisty whip-wielding wife had to fend off a lynch mob and trick them in a classic ruse to get the murderer back to prison. The stories range from violence and terror to nostalgic sweet sadness to hilarious antics. Every item is a jewel to remember.
The Writings Of Mark Twain Life On The Mississippi
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
The Writings Of Mark Twain Life On The Mississippi 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 1911 with Christian Science categories.
Demythologizing American Identity
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Author : Margrith Zobrist
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Mark Twain Mississippi Writings Tom Sawyer Life On The Mississippi Huckleberry Finn Pudd Nhead Wilson Classic Illustrated Edition
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-09
Mark Twain Mississippi Writings Tom Sawyer Life On The Mississippi Huckleberry Finn Pudd Nhead Wilson Classic Illustrated Edition 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 2019-07-09 with categories.
* Beautifully illustrated with delightful illustrations from early editions, these are four of the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works in one superb volume.* Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece.* Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's readers as they would have been when first published, the novels are some of the great works of American literature and continue to be widely read throughout the world.* This meticulous edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.
Mississippi Writers
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Author : Dorothy Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1985
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Fiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
The Measure Of Our Days
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Author : Andrew P. Mullins, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-18
The Measure Of Our Days written by Andrew P. Mullins, Jr. and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Governor William F. Winter has enriched the political and cultural life of Mississippi and the United States for six decades—as an infantryman in World War II, as a Mississippi House representative (1947–1959), as governor of Mississippi (1980–1984), as a member of President Bill Clinton's Advisory Board on Race (1997–1998), and as an advocate for education and racial reconciliation. Unlike most public figures, Winter wrote all of his own speeches. The Measure of Our Days: Writings of William F. Winter presents a collection of the governor's most thoughtful writings on his home state, the South, and America in general. A sampling of his ideas from the early 1960s to the present, the volume attests to his progressive political and moral philosophy. Collected, they reveal Winter's keen intellect, quiet wit, and stubborn political courage. The book includes a preface by editor Andrew P. Mullins, Jr., that places Winter in a historical context and gives a brief biography of the politician. Winter is perhaps best known for his leadership in passing the 1982 Mississippi Education Reform Act which, among other things, established public kindergartens in the state. Throughout his long career, Winter has given speeches on a broad range of subjects—race, religion, education, book banning, community building, civil liberties, urban and agricultural development, family, literature, environmental conservation, and history—that testify to the diversity of his interests and his continuing engagement with American affairs.
The Writings Of Mark Twain Life On The Mississippi
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Writings Of Mark Twain Life On The Mississippi 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 1869 with categories.