{"title":"Mark Twain","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","title":"A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthurs Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Mark Twain is a satirical novel about a 19th-century American engineer, Hank Morgan, who is transported back in time to King Arthur's England. Using his modern knowledge, he tries to \"civilize\" the medieval world with technology and industry, clashing with the feudal system, the church, and chivalric traditions. 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He was lauded as the \"greatest humorist this country has produced\",and William Faulkner called him \"the father of American literature\".His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),the latter often called \"The Great American Novel\".Chapter 1 of THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGERIt was in 1590—winter. Austria was far away fromthe world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages inAustria, and promised to remain so forever. Some evenset it away back centuries upon centuries and said thatby the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age ofBelief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, nota slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. Iremember it well, although I was only a boy; and Iremember, too, the pleasure it gave me.Yes, Austria was far from the world, and asleep, andour village was in the middle of that sleep, being in themiddle of Austria. It drowsed in peace in the deepprivacy of a hilly and woodsy solitude where news fromthe world hardly ever came to disturb its dreams, andwas infinitely content. At its front flowed the tranquilriver, its surface painted with cloud-forms and thereflections of drifting arks and stone-boats; behind itrose the woody steeps to the base of the lofty precipice;from the top of the precipice frowned a vast castle, itslong stretch of towers and bastions mailed in vines;beyond the river, a league to the left, was a tumbledexpanse of forest-clothed hills cloven by winding gorgeswhere the sun never penetrated; and to the right aprecipice overlooked the river, and between it and thehills just spoken of lay a far-reaching plain dotted withlittle homesteads nested among orchards and shadetrees.Chapter 1 of The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson.PUDD’NHEAD WINS HIS NAME.Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’sCalendar.THE scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’sLanding, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half aday’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest oneandtwo-story frame dwellings whose whitewashedexteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbingtangles of rose-vines, honeysuckles, and morningglories.Each of these pretty homes had a garden infront fenced with white palings and opulently stockedwith hollyhocks, marigolds, touch-me-nots, prince’sfeathersand other old-fashioned flowers; while on thewindow-sills of the houses stood wooden boxescontaining moss-rose plants and terra-cotta pots inwhich grew a breed of geranium whose spread ofintensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tintof the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame.When there was room on the ledge outside of the potsand boxes for a cat, the cat was there—in sunnyweather—stretched at full length, asleep and blissful,with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved overher nose.Then that house was complete, and itscontentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. Ahome without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted andproperly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps,but how can it prove title?All along the streets, on both sides, at the outer edgeof the brick sidewalks, stood locust-trees with trunksprotected by wooden boxing, and these furnished shadefor summer and a sweet fragrance in spring when theclusters of buds came forth. The main street, one blockback from the river, and running parallel with it, wasthe sole business street.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crosswordbooks.uae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137608585291,"sku":"BK0008571","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/4877\/3707\/files\/PuddnheadWilsonTheMysteriousStranger.jpg?v=1779714449"},{"product_id":"the-adventiures-of-tom-sawyer","title":"The Adventiures Of Tom Sawyer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Plainly, here were 'two souls with but a single thought.” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel written by Mark Twain. Containing autobiographical elements from Twain’s childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, the book ended up as the best selling of all of Twain’s works. Set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, the book recounts the many adventures that Tom Sawyer, has, as he navigates life in 1840s America, with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid in tow. Along the way, Tom meets Huckleberry Finn, who leads him to further mischief. One of the first novels to be written on a typewriter, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic masterpiece of American literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crosswordbooks.uae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137645416523,"sku":"BK0008550","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/4877\/3707\/files\/TheAdventiuresOfTomSawyer1.jpg?v=1779774155"},{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-1","title":"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken, abusive 'Pap' and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the first edition of 1884, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes a chronology and list of further reading by Richard Maxwell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; 'Mark Twain', a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep, became the pseudonym by which he was best known. After the Civil War, Twain turned to journalism, publishing his first short story in 1865. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain led a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, you may like Mark Twain's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e... 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