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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
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Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Life on the Mississippi" is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfictional work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War. A priceless collection of of humorous anecodotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain's...
3) Roughing it
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 30
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Originally published over one hundred years ago, Roughing It tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twain's rollicking adventures across the United States. A hilarious account of how the author tried finding wealth in the rocks of Nevada, it was published before his most famous works and shows why he would grow to become one of the most beloved American writers of all time.
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Pub. Date
1923
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A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
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c2010
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts...
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Pub. Date
1989
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). First published in 1897, Twain's travel book "Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World" chronicles his 1895 tour of the British Empire when he was 60 years old. Fundamentally...
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This sparkling anthology of Mark Twain’s most trenchant remarks has been culled from his books, speeches, letters and conversations recorded by contemporaries. The sayings are as fresh today as when he first wrote them and represent Twain at his wittiest and best.
A sparkling anthology culled from Mark Twain’s books, speeches, letters and conversations. As humorous and relevant today as they were in his time.
15) Tom and Huck
Pub. Date
2003
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Mark Twain's classic story of the mischievous but goodhearted Tom Sawyer and his adventures along the Mississippi.
19) Mark Twain
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Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
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"The mysterious stranger, a ghost story & ten more great tales!"--Cover.
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