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Chargement... The Private History of a Campaign That Failedpar Mark Twain
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is I guess folksy and fun of Twainian flourishes, but really not a "short story" so much as history, a straight rendition of what "spirited lads" all over the border states were doing and going through around the outbreak of the Civil War. Twain intentionally plays it low-key and makes their band of goofballs kind of unremarkable and kind of iconic, and mostly you're left with the sense of this same story playing itself out fifty thousand times in the early weeks before anyone had any idea what kind of animal a "civil war" was or what they had on their hands here. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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