Mark Twain In Hawaii

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824802882
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1975-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in Twain's efforts when he finally did put pen to paper.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Mutual Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by Mutual Publishing. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 letters written as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, a newspaper.

Author : Walter Francis Frear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and Hawaii written by Walter Francis Frear and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493053132
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain’s wit and wisdom is timeless. Mark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain’s own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain’s journey through the region just as he experienced it in 1866. The book highlights Twain’s humor, travel in the 19th century, history, social commentary, and the exotic locale in an authoritative and entertaining volume for Twain fans and Hawaii enthusiasts.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Outbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780896460706
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by Outbooks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Jr. Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439101377
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lighting Out for the Territory written by Roy Jr. Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it—he’s been there before. It’s a decision Huck’s creator already had made, albeit for somewhat different reasons, a quarter of a century earlier. He wasn’t even Mark Twain then, but as Huck might have said, “That ain’t no matter.” With the Civil War spreading across his native Missouri, twenty-five-year-old Samuel Clemens, suddenly out of work as a Mississippi riverboat pilot, gladly accepted his brother Orion’s offer to join him in Nevada Territory, far from the crimsoned battlefields of war. A rollicking, hilarious stagecoach journey across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains was just the beginning of a nearly six-year-long odyssey that took Samuel Clemens from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Hawaii, with lengthy stopovers in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco. By the time it was over, he would find himself reborn as Mark Twain, America’s best-loved, most influential writer. The “trouble,” as he famously promised, had begun. With a pitch-perfect blend of appreciative humor and critical authority, acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris, Jr., sheds new light on this crucial but still largely unexamined period in Mark Twain’s life. Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction—never an easy task when dealing with Twain—to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away. With the frequent help of Twain’s own words, Morris follows his subject on a winding journey of selfdiscovery filled with high adventure and low comedy, as Clemens/Twain dodges Indians and gunfighters, receives marriage advice from Brigham Young, burns down a mountain with a frying pan, gets claim-jumped by rival miners, narrowly avoids fighting a duel, hikes across the floor of an active volcano, becomes one of the first white men to try the ancient Hawaiian sport of surfing, and writes his first great literary success, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Lighting Out for the Territory is a fascinating, even inspiring, account of how an unemployed riverboat pilot, would-be Confederate guerrilla, failed prospector, neophyte newspaper reporter, and parttime San Francisco aesthete reinvented himself as America’s most famous and beloved writer. It’s a good story, and mostly true—with some stretchers thrown in for good measure.

Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Hawaii written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigey Lennon
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0983488428
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sagebrush Bohemian written by Nigey Lennon and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people, including literary biographers and other people who should know better, have a persistent image of Mark Twain as a dyspeptic geezer in a white suit, sourly regarding the world from a rocking chair on his New England porch. Not surprisingly, when Nigey Lennon’s groundbreaking biography, "The Sagebrush Bohemian", originally presented its startlingly irreverent revelations about Twain’s formative years, it aroused a firestorm of controversy. Previous Twain biographers had virtually ignored the pivotal period (1861-1869) during which Samuel Clemens migrated to the Western territory; learned the craft of writing in newspaper offices, saloons, and worse places; visited the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands; became a public speaker; adopted (or misappropriated) his famous monicker; and acquired his trademark moustache. Beneath its breezy, eminently readable surface, "The Sagebrush Bohemian" digests acres of primary sources to provide a penetrating, ribald, and hilarious look at the origins of Mark Twain, not to mention the Zeitgeist of the lusty and lawless era that produced him. “[The Sagebrush Bohemian] offers an efficient and lighthearted introduction to the years in which Sam Clemens transformed himself into the writer who made the American language and American irreverence the stuff of literature.” -- The New York Times Book Review “With great good humor, Lennon recounts Twain’s acquisition of a craft lost in his counterparts today...a different look at Samuel Clemens.” -- Booklist “A delight to read.” -- San Francisco Review of Books

Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847395996
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Ron Powers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twain's story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain's letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West, and witnessed and joined the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and of the Gilded Age. Through it all he observed, borrowed, stole and combined the characters he met into the voice of America's greatest literature, attracting throngs of fans wherever his undying lust for wandering took him. From Twain's wicked satire to his relationships with the likes of Ulysses Grant, this is a brilliantly written story that astounds, amuses and edifies as only a great life can.