Samuel Clemens
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"On an autumn day, in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, two boys were born in England, one to a poor family by the name of Canty who lived in Offal Court, not far from London Bridge, and the other to a wealthy and high-placed family by the name of Tudor. Young Tom Canty, unwanted, unloved, began his day-dreaming early in order to forget the petty stealing to which he was forced by his cruel rogue of a father--and the royal Court and young...
7) Mark Twain
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c2004
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"The mysterious stranger, a ghost story & ten more great tales!"--Cover.
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
13) Tom Sawyer
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1990, c1986
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Breve relato basado en la cuento clásico que transcurre a orillas del río Mississippi, en el cual Tom Sawyer y sus amigos Huck Finn and Beckey Thatcher se escapan de sus casas, observan un asesinato y encuentran un tesoro en una cueva.
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c1979
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An anthology of the works of Mark Twain including the complete texts of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn", selections from his travel and humorous sketches, and excerpts from lesser-known novels. Texts are taken from first editions and include the original illustrations.