Critiques en avant-premièreMark Twain

Book-banning is an unfortunate feature of our civilization, and it's been around for quite a while. Some books generate more controversy and get banned far more than others. This collection was created to assemble them under one umbrella. This book features an introductory essay on the state of US book censorship in 2023, as well as historical context and commentary for all 32 books contained within. The titles include:

1. Adam Bede (1859) By George Eliot

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) By Mark Twain

3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) By Mark Twain

5. The Age of Reason (1794) By Thomas Paine

6. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865) By Lewis Carroll

7. An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

8. The Awakening (1899) By Kate Chopin

9. The Call of The Wild (1903) By Jack London

10. Candide (1759) By Voltaire

11. Confessions (1782) By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12. Droll Stories (1831) By Honore De Balzac

13. The Decameron (1353) By Giovanni Boccaccio

14. Elmer Gantry (1927) Sinclair Lewis

15. Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) By John Cleland

16. The Great Gatsby (1925) By F. Scott Fitzgerald

17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) By Victor Hugo

18. The Jungle (1906) By Upton Sinclair

19. Leaves of Grass (1897) By Walt Whitman

20. Lysistrata (411BC) By Aristophanes

21. Madame Bovary (1857) By Gustave Flaubert

22. Moll Flanders (1722) By Daniel Defoe

23. The Rights of Man (1791) By Thomas Paine

24. Salammbo (1896) By Gustave Flaubert

25. Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) By George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

26. Sister Carrie (1900) By Theodore Dreiser

27. Sons and Lovers (1913) By D.H. Lawrence

28. The Scarlet Letter (1850) By Nathaniel Hawthorne

29. The Sun Also Rises (1926) By Ernest Hemingway

30. Ulysses (1922) By James Joyce

31. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) By Harriet Beecher Stowe

32. Women In Love (1920) By D. H. Lawrence

All the original formatting and indentation has been preserved: if some paragraphs seem abnormally long, that's by design. Unfortunately, due to e-book size constraints, all the original book illustrations had to be removed.

This book brings you entertaining and witty short stories by great writers such as Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and J. M. Barrie. There are stories about a sassy, talking cat, an unusual divorce, and a man with a mouse in his pants on a train.

Some characters flounder their way through awkward and embarrassing social situations. And other tales have quirky plots, like The Canterville Ghost, where the human occupants scare and terrorize the household ghost.

This collection gives you a chance to sample work from 7 master storytellers from the 1800s and early 1900s. The writers featured are Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, J.M. Barrie, Stephen Leacock, Saki, W.W. Jacobs and O. Henry. Read on and enjoy!

What happens when a small lie snowballs out of control? Or a man finds a mouse in his pants on a train? Or a talking cat really ruins the mood at a dinner party? Find out in these fun and witty short stories by great writers such as Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and J. M. Barrie.

Some characters flounder their way through awkward and embarrassing social situations like in The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones and My Brother Henry. Other tales have quirky plots, like The Canterville Ghost, where the human occupants scare and terrorize the household ghost.

This collection gives you a chance to sample work from 7 master storytellers from the 1800s and early 1900s. The writers featured are Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, J.M. Barrie, Stephen Leacock, Saki, W.W. Jacobs and O. Henry. So read on, have a laugh and be entertained!

Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous follows fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr through his trials and tribulations. As the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, Harvey is spoiled and largely unaware of the ways of the world. When he is stranded on the shore of the Grand Banks after having been washed overboard from his transatlantic steamship, he meets the Captain of We're Here and has no choice to accept a position on his ship. Harvey's adventures on the ship teach him about industry and consideration for others while Kipling weaves in themes of class differences and humility.

Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous follows fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr through his trials and tribulations. As the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, Harvey is spoiled and largely unaware of the ways of the world. When he is stranded on the shore of the Grand Banks after having been washed overboard from his transatlantic steamship, he meets the Captain of We're Here and has no choice to accept a position on his ship. Harvey's adventures on the ship teach him about industry and consideration for others while Kipling weaves in themes of class differences and humility.

This childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with timeless humor and wisdom. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court.

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences. This volume also includes two other late works `Those Extraordinary Twins' and `The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'.

A Tramp in Berlin tells how Mark Twain spent the winter of 1891-1892 in the German capital. America’s foremost humorist conspired with diplomats, frequented the salons, had breakfast with duchesses, and dined with the emperor. He also suffered an “organized dog-choir club,” picked a fight with the police, was abused by a porter, got lost on streetcars, and witnessed a proletarian uprising. Twain's Berlin stories are assembled here, together with a riveting account of his adventures by Andreas Austilat, the deputy editor of the Sunday supplement of Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin’s leading daily.

Huckleberry Finn was a boy with no home. Jim was a runaway robot in search of freedom. Together they embarked upon the adventure of a lifetime! Mark Twain's classic text has been a lightning rod for controversy since its first publication in the late nineteenth century, and has consistently been one of the most banned books in schools and libraries across the United States. In an effort to fight the censorship of this iconic piece of literature, editors Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine have removed every instance of the word "n-word" and replaced it with the word "robot." Complete and unabridged (except for bits here and there), with E.W. Kemble's original illustrations painstakingly altered by artist Denise Devine to include robots, this bold new edition makes Twain's timeless work accessible to a whole new generation of readers ... without being bogged down by what he wanted to say about racism. "Mark Twain has been criticized for his use of the term "Robot" to describe the mechanically created people who worked as unpaid drudges. Some MechPeople regard the term as offensive. Other MechPeople, like myself, see it as important to understand the world in which our ancestors vied and toiled. And this telling of Huckleberry Finn and of Robot Jim and his quest for Freedom speaks to all of us: human and mechanical." - Neil Gaiman Author of "American Gods" and noted Mechperson "How do you challenge a wrong-headed bowdlerization of a great novel? Diani & Devine's response is inspired: suggest an even more preposterous one. In the spirit of some of the over-the-top satire in which Twain himself occasionally indulged, the Robotic Huck Finn is designed to get readers to see why "improving" the words of a writer as careful as Twain is such a terrible idea." - Shelley Fisher Fishkin Joseph S Atha Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Stanford University

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a 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 Wilson possesses 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 Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works. (from Amazon.com)