汤姆·索亚历险记:THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

作者：  马克·吐温 著

出版社：天津人民出版社 2016年3月

简介：《汤姆•索亚历险记》是著名小说家马克•吐温的代表作，发表于1876年。小说主人公汤姆•索亚天真活泼，富于幻想和冒险，不堪忍受束缚个性、枯燥乏味的生活，幻想干一番英雄事业。小说通过主人公的冒险经历，对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判，以欢快的笔调描写了少年儿童自由活泼的心灵。《汤姆•索亚历险记》以其浓厚的深具地方特色的幽默和对人物敏锐观察，一跃成为最伟大的文学作品，也是一首美国“黄金时代”的田园牧歌。在这部作品中，儿童的灵动活泼和周围现实生活的陈腐刻板形成了鲜明的对照。故事向人们展示了一些社会弊病和黑暗现实，揭示了的虚伪性，无情地嘲讽了庸俗的小市民习气。作品问世以来，一直受到读者的喜爱，成为一部。The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a youngboy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictionaltown of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. TomSawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties hisclothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day aspunishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures forthe privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday Schooltickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses, redeeming them for aBible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought“it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheavesof Scriptural wisdom on his premises—a dozen would strain his capacity, withouta doubt.”Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuadesher to get “engaged” by kissing him. But their romance collapses when shelearns Tom has been “engaged” previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Beckyshuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, wherethey witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

The prince and he pauper

作者：  Twain, Mark,

出版社：Macmillan 2013

简介：The year is 1547. In London, two boys from different families live very different lives. One is Edward Tudor, a prince and the future King of England; the other is Tom Canty, the son of a thief. One day they meet and their lives change forever. What happens when the two boys wear each other's clothes? Why does the prince need the help of a poor man? Who becomes king when Henry VIII dies? And how can a beautiful gold object save the prince? Mark Twain's classic story of two young boys who swap lives has the answers. Original work by Mark Twain

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简介：Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, religious institutions, and democratic governments alike have suppressed, condemned, or banned books thought to challenge assumptions or question authority. Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition profiles the censorship of works banned because they ignored or defied official truths or merely contained ideas or language unacceptable to a state, religion, or individual moral watchdog. New entries in this revised edition include the Captain Underpants series, by Dav Pilkey; Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven, by Margaret Zemach; and We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier. Entries from the previous edition, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, have been updated to include the most recent censorship actions by school boards, governments, and other organizations and people attempting to restrict the freedom to read. Other new or updated entries include: The Adventures of Huckleberrry Finn, by Mark Twain; The Basketball Diaries, by Jim Carroll; The Color Purple, by Alice Walker; The Drowning of Stephan Jones, by Bette Greene; The Giver, by Louis Lowry; Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher; and many more. - Back cover.

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

作者：  Mark Twain　著

出版社：Random House US 1983-10-1

简介：Book DescriptionFashioned from the sameexperiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn,Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and mostpersonal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocationof the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholyreminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a pricelesscollection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a uniqueglimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write.Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatestin English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain asnot only the most popular humorist of his time but also America’smost profound chronicler of the human comedy.The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of LiteratureMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before theAmerican Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The bookbegins with a brief history of the river from its discovery byHernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twain's career asa Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhooddream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain'sreturn, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to NewOrleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboatspasse, in spite of improvements in navigation and boatconstruction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, andrecords his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and badarchitecture.About the AuthorMark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of themost exciting of literary lives. Raised in the river town ofHannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age 12 and wassuccessively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a halfheartedConfederate soldier, and a prospector, miner, and reporter in thewestern territories. His experiences furnished him with a wideknowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of localcustoms and speech which manifests itself in his writing.With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog ofCalaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontierhumorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame.But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognizedby the literary establishment as one of the greatest writersAmerica would ever produce.Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy andfinancial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic—an outlooknot alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though hisfame continued to widen—Yale & Oxford awarded him honorarydegrees—Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation,writing fables about "the damned human race."Book Dimensionlength: (cm)17.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.4

The complete humorous sketches and tales of Mark Twain

作者：  Mark Twain

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简介：SUMMARY: 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, Fol lowing the

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Bantam classic ed.

作者：  by Mark Twain ; afterword by Alfred Kazin.

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简介：　　The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations. 　　The very success of Mark Twains's first novel has obscured its contradictions and the extent to which the author's response to contemporary cultural developments was a mixed one. Tom Sawyer is not only a deft comedy and a powerful celebration of childhood. It also reflects how Mark Twain was in the process of finding his distinctive voice, a voice with which he could express the conflicts he felt about coming of age in America. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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简介：　　"All Modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn, " Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and is still banned in many schools and libraries. Now, Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the best-selling The Annotated Wizard of Oz, thoroughly reexamines the 116-year heritage of that archetypal American boy, Huck Finn, and follows his adventures along every bend of the mighty Mississippi River. Hearn's copious annotations draw on primary sources including the original manuscript, Twain's revisions and letters, and period accounts. Reproducing the original E. W. Kemble illustrations from the first edition, as well as countless archival photographs and drawings, some of them previously unpublished, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn is a book no family's library can do without; it may well prove to be the classic edition of the great American novel.　　

The prince and the pauper /

作者：  by Mark Twain.

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简介： 在线阅读本书 Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England’s romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparks the best of Mark Twain’s tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London’s filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled “Prince of Poverty” discovers that his private dreams have all come true—while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous thieves. Originally written as a story for children, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic novel for adults as well—through its stinging attack on the ageless human folly of attempting to measure true worth by outer appearances.

Pudd'nhead Wilson /

作者：  by Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Langston Hughes.

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简介： 以收到实物为准。 在线阅读本书 At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilsona young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's.  From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels.  On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilsonpossesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery:  reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution.  Yet it is not a mystery novel.  Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.  Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilsonglistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony:  a gem among the author's later works.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Bantam classic ed.

作者：  by Mark Twain.

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简介： The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the epis6des which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in practice in that day also. One is quite justified in inferring that wherever one of these laws or customs was lacking in that remote time, its place was competently filled by a worse one.……

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简介： 在线阅读本书 Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn He has no mother, his father is a drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He's Huck Finn-liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. And on a raft floating down the Mississippi, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. Now includes a new introduction.

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简介：Includes essays and literary works by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and H. L. Mencken as well as an essay by Henry L. Stimson (P.A. 1883) on the decision to use the atomic bomb. Contains primary source material.

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简介：In the aftermath of 9/11, Dolbeare and Cummings challenge students to examine their own political identities. They are asked to take their newfound concern about Islamic fundamentalism and focus it toward the issue of American fundamentalism, or the foundations of American political thought. Students are invited to examine such basic ideals as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as well as private and free enterprise, the rule of law, institutional checks and balances, and the people's right to revolt against oppression. From European and Iroquois precursors, the American colonists' revolutionary experience, and two centuries of robust development sprang a body of political thought and practice that has both inspired and repulsed the rest of the world. The editors outline three organizing themes to help readers understand and analyze seminal and revisionist readings: the social and historical foundationsof American political thought, the key transformationsin American political thought and practice, and the individual and collective political identityof Americans. By stressing the value of examining and understanding their own political beliefs in historical context, students can decide what beliefs are most appropriate for them as Americans in facing the unique challenges of the 21st century. The book's organization remains the same, except the post-World War II period has been split into two separate periods: 1945-1990 and 1990-2004. The entirely new Part VI taps the richly provocative diversity of American political thought since 1990, exploring a wide range of thinkers from liberal President Bill Clinton and conservative President George W. Bush to new political voices inspired by concerns of populism, nationalism, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, social class, and the well-being of the earth itself. In addition to the new, modern readings, the fifth edition also adds a few key contributions from earlier times. Federalist Paper#54 shows just how conflicted the Founders were over slavery. A piece by Mark Twain reflects the novelist's signature political themes, including the abolition of slavery and opposition to imperialism. A selection of entries from Civil War soldier and postwar columnist Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionarycomprises a cohesive philosophy of political cynicism that rings all too true today, while the sad lament of Lakota holy man Black Elk offers both an indictment of the American past and an invitation to a profoundly different and better future.

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简介：      在线阅读本书          Book Description     The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection that includes autobiographies of Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and Frederick Douglass, with an Introduction by the editor.          Includes: A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain,and Four Autobiographical Narratives of Zitkala-Sa.          Book Dimension     length: (cm)17.3 width:(cm)10.4

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简介：The Innocents Abroad is based largely on letters written by Mark Twain for New York and San Francisco newspapers, narrating the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe, to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. It is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the smug complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. Out of the book emerges a portrait of Mark Twain himself, the shrewd and comical manipulator of English idiom, and American mythologies about itself and its relation to the past. Roughing It is the lighthearted account of Mark Twain's actual and imagined adventures when he escaped the Civil War and joined his brother, recently appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory. It include some funny and quite random character sketches, animal fables, tall tales, and dramatic monologues. ISBN 0-940450-25-9 :