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26/07/2024

Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 1

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Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) “Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia.” 2.) “The Austrian Edison keeping school again” 3.) “The Canvasser’s tale.” 4.) “The Czar’s Soliloquy.” 5.) “English as She is Taught.” 6.) “Grasses in the South.” 7.) “Hawaii.” 8.) “A Helpless Situation.” 9.) “How I Escaped being Killed in a Duel.” 10.) “Important to Whom it may Concern.” 11.) “The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again” 12.) “Jim’s Investments, and King Sollermun.”     [chương_files]  

23/07/2024

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

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In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, and finishes with a trip that proves life-changing.     [chương_files]  

21/07/2024
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Essays on Paul Bourget

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Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: “What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us” and “A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget”.     [chương_files]  

16/07/2024
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The Jumping Frog

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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.” In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English. He then published all three versions under the title “The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil.”     [chương_files]