Books by Mark Twain
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review 1: The cheeky inversion of the usual moralising stories about the goody-two-shoe princesses came as such a shock to my six-year-old girl that she initially didn't get it. But once I had explained all the difficult vocabulary and 19th century phrasing, she really enjoyed the subvers...
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review 1: In my class we read the radio play version of The One Million Pound Bank Note. I thought it was actually pretty good. I read some of Mark Twain's books,and this is one of his most famous, and it is one of my favorites. You never saw a person that has really doesn't have a job, an...
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review 1: I really wanted to like this. In fact, for the first two parts, I loved it! But then my rating loses three stars for, as the story progresses, Eve remains childlike and passionate while Adam is the pensive, stoic one. And then there was this little gem:"If he should beat me and a...
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review 1: This was not writing by a man who understands women. This is by a man who only believes and understands Patriarchy society.Sometimes, it was funny, sometimes it made me smile, but mostly it was silly and at times pretty much just horrible. and about the ending of this book I woul...
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review 1: cute. an easy read. I enjoyed the poetic innocence. I also love the Sarah Brightman song based on this book and never knew it was from the end of this story. now I will love the song even more.favorite quotes:Eve:"I am very interesting, but if I had another to talk to I could be ...
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review 1: Mark Twain left many manuscripts with instructions to not publish until 70 years after his death. Some of those manuscripts have recently been published in this book. The comments are as appropriate for today as they were 100 years ago. Some of his remarks had me laughing out ...
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review 1: I don't feel the need to reiterate what the story is about, considering my fellow readers have done this twenty-fold. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a classic, without a doubt. Mark Twain is an excellent writer. That is if you enjoy broken English with a south...
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review 1: Funniest essay I have ever read. Wasn't one of the assigned essays from a collection bought for some long-since-forgotten class, but well worth having lugged the volume from home to home all these years! I read this essay first some forty years ago, and I pull it out anytime I n...
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review 1: Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences by Mark Twain is an outlandishly critical review of the works of James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper, a contemporary of Twain, wrote stories that were quite popular when they were published. Mark Twain doesn’t hold back with his criticisms but delive...
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review 1: There have been countless Sherlock Holmes parodies, but Mark Twain was perhaps the first. That is, if you can call A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY a parody. Personally, I'm not so sure. Holmes appears only briefly in this novella, to bungle the murder investigation and accu...
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review 1: This starts of with an unusual perspective on his rider and life in general - it's a book written in the some places from the horse's point of view, with a wide range of comments from the horse, both funny and historical. And Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer) is as ent...
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review 1: Within the first few minutes of this audiobook, one knows exactly why Mark Twain was such a success as an author and humorist. His wit and satire abound with each story, and yet he maintains a level of humility that is just as charming as it is surprising. The anecdotes and stori...