Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches - Paperback
by Mark Twain
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark Twain, Tom Quirk (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1994-09-01Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140434170ISBN-10:140434178UPC:9780140434170Book Category:FictionSize:7.80 x 5.17 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCWH1HAD5Y
Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140434170ISBN-10:140434178UPC:9780140434170Book Category:FictionSize:7.80 x 5.17 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCWH1HAD5Y
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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