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Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated) (Delphi Series One Book 8) Kindle Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Delphi Classics (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

Features:
* ALL 12 novels, annotated with concise introductions and featuring individual contents tables
* beautifully presented with images relating to Twain's life and works
* illustrated with images of how the books first appeared, giving your Kindle a taste of the original texts
* includes Twain’s rare unfinished novel “The Mysterious Stranger”, often missed out of collections
* ALL of the short stories, with high quality formatting
* the short stories have their own chronological and alphabetical contents tables – find that special story easily!
* Twain's 20 short story contributions to "The Library of Humor", with their own contents table
* Twain’s complete letters, essays and satires – with their own special contents tables
* the travel writing, with contents tables and illustrations
* includes Twain's "Chapters from My Autobiography"
* SPECIAL BONUS texts, including three contemporary Twain biographies - explore the great man's amazing life in Paine's and Howells' famous biographies
* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* boasts a special literary criticism section, with various works exploring Twain's contribution to literature
* the complete speeches
* UPDATED with the improved images

This is the COMPLETE WORKS of America’s favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains every novel, short story - even the very rare ones – essay, travel book, non-fiction text, letter and a wealth of bonus material. Welcome to hours upon hours upon hours of reading one of literature’s most famous storytellers!

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CONTENTS
The Novels
THE GILDED AGE: A TALE OF TODAY
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
TOM SAWYER ABROAD
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON
TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC
A HORSE'S TALE
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

The Short Stories
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES
MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY OF HUMOR

The Essays and Satires
LIST OF TWAIN’S ESSAYS AND SATIRES

The Travel Writing
THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
ROUGHING IT
A TRAMP ABROAD
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR
SOME RAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSION

The Non-Fiction
OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
QUEEN VICTORIA'S JUBILEE
MY PLATONIC SWEETHEART
EDITORIAL WILD OATS

The Letters
THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF MARK TWAIN

The Speeches
THE COMPLETE SPEECHES

The Criticism
MARK TWAIN BY ARCHIBALD HENDERSON
MARK TWAIN BY BRANDER MATTHEWS
THE AMERICANS BY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY
MARK TWAIN BY FREDERICK WADDY
NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLES

The Biographies
CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY MARK TWAIN
MY MARK TWAIN BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0051XSGYS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Delphi Classics
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 20 May 2011
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 9th
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 135.4 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 13525 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1908909121
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.

Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'

Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.

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  • pac
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read, Great Value For Money
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2020
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    Excellent Read, Great Value For Money
    As an avid reader its handy to have your book collection with you. Some books are lacking images but hay that’s why we have imaginations. Overall very pleased.
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  • Graham Cotton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Supreme wizard of the pen..
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2018
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    Supreme story teller always interesting and sometimes extremely funny .I rank alongside Dickens for both the quality and variety of literature generated over his writing career .Worth every penny of the Kindle cost.
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  • Oliver Lambard
    4.0 out of 5 stars A veritable library of Mark Twain's work
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2013
    With the introductory notes and guide I thought this edition brought me to a new understanding of what I've previously read of Mark Twain. As a child I started with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and this led me as an adult to return to some of his more demanding but nevertheless uniquely clear and lucid form that still made reading so easy and spontaneous.
    This collection is certainly very comprehensive - a veritable library of Twain's work.

    The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and the author's unfinished work "The Mysterious Stranger" were fascinating and completely opened my eyes to his mature style and earlier perhaps mistaken preconceptions I'd had on hearsay about his contribution.
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  • Haydn Pritchard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Set of Twain
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2016
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    Big fan of the Delphi complete works and this didn't disappoint. Well laid out and easy to navigate.
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  • D A ROSS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2018
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    an interesting story teller
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  • Dave S
    5.0 out of 5 stars a good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2013
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    A good introduction to a writer largely ignored nowadays but humourist I have always admired. His character descriptions are wonderful.
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  • Gerald Pieti
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant essayist
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 March 2013
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    Words can't express the fun I'm having with this, especially the 1601 Fireside Chat. The bonus was the background material about the essay
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  • David P
    3.0 out of 5 stars Stealing from project Gutenberg and making money?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2012
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    This rating is not for the works themselves, (which are excellent) but for the digital version. At first I was quite happy with it, things appear to have been laid out in quite a clear way, and the hyperlinks to each chapter are useful.

    However, about half way through Huckleberry Finn, a block of text was missing. I turned to the project Gutenburg version, which I also had on my kindle, and noticed that the exact same page on that version was not missing, but was an un-OCR'd image (i.e. you could read the page on the Gutenburg version, but a computer wouldn't be able to). This suggests that the 'publishers' have taken the text from project Gutenburg - put up there by volunteers - and are now making a profit from someone else's work.

    I'm not entirely sure if this is the case - it's just an assumption - but if it is true I think it's pretty low. I think I might be avoiding this publisher from now on.
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  • Carl Wolf
    5.0 out of 5 stars Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain
    Reviewed in Germany on 15 January 2014
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    One of the great 19th Century thinkers, this guy really knew how to put words on paper. An outspoken literary personality, he has influenced many present-day writers. Love his pictures!
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  • M. Clifford
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection with engaging illustrations
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2013
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    I've been reading this collection via Kindle on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet...It's been a very pleasurable experience to re-read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn after many years since my last reading. The illustrations are fun; they include images of the first pages of each chapter as they appeared in early editions (first?) of the book. The book is well-organized and it is easy to get to any of the many titles via hotlink in the table of contents. Definitely a good investment for any fan of Mark Twain!.
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  • Denis Mariano
    5.0 out of 5 stars All Mark Twain in one go
    Reviewed in Italy on 7 January 2015
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    Gives you the opportunity to read again some classics. Excellent price. Contains litterally all his works. Brough back memories of when I was a child
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  • hiyoko
    5.0 out of 5 stars マーク・トウェインを読むならコレ
    Reviewed in Japan on 7 August 2014
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    『トム・ソーヤーの冒険』、『王子と乞食』、『ハックルベリー・フィンの冒険』など、昔読んでワクワクしたものが帰ってきました。
    分量が多すぎて困ってしまうほどのタイトルがありますが、本は逃げないので地味に読みたいと思いました。
    マーク・トウェインを語るならコレを読んでから！。
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  • Arthur D.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Não tenha medo de Mark Twain
    Reviewed in Brazil on 13 June 2023
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    Mark Twain, o primeiro grande nome da literatura norte-americana, já é bastante conhecido para necessitar de apresentação. Por isso, quero falar apenas desta edição de suas obras completas e de um aspecto do autor que há de interessar ao leitor lusófono.

    Da edição, primeiro cumpre dizer que ela cumpre o que promete. Aqui, de fato, se encontra tudo quanto Mark Twain publicou em vida: seus romances, contos, ensaios, diários de viagem, cartas, discursos, e, de quebra, algumas biografias do escritor e parte de sua fortuna crítica. Cada obra e fragmento incluído neste calhamaço consta no índice ativo, o que facilita a busca de passagens específicas. Enfim, a edição é impecável, como todas as da Delphi.

    E que dizer daquela a quem William Faulkner chamou "o primeiro escritor genuinamente americano, do qual todos somos herdeiros"? Ou do autor do romance (Huckleberry Finn) do qual Ernest Hemingway disse ter saído toda a literatura americana moderna? "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." São elogios grandiosos demais, de homens grandes demais, para que eu pense em lhes ajuntar algum de minha autoria. Por isso, deixo apenas esta palavra ao leitor brasileiro: não tenha medo de Mark Twain; ainda que mais de um século o separe de nós, a sua prosa é excepcionalmente legível para o leitor com alguma fluência no inglês — e as dificuldades eventuais que encontramos podem ser sanadas com um clique, graças ao dicionário imbutido no kindle.
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