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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613100337
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sketches New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781595403162
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sketches New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to depart. Next day I stepped into the chief jeweler's to set it by the exact time, and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me. Then he said, "She is four minutes slow-regulator wants pushing up." I tried to stop him - tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow, and the regulator must be pushed up a little; and so, while I danced around him in anguish, and implored him to let the watch alone, he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed. My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within the week it sickened to a raging fever, and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade. At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear, and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521168240
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain by Mark Twain Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories--except for "The Case of George Fisher"--by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly; complaints about barbers and office bores; and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twain's hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. "What fascinates Twain," Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people "react to the things that happen to them." Twain "lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot; words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man"--or woman. "The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection" Smith writes, is one "told by a freed slave." The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Mark Twain: Sketches new and old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385257638
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's sketches, new and old. Now first published in complete form, etc written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7Z/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sketches, New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation which Twain re-translated into English, showing how the French translation of his work was "badly flawed." In many of these sketches, Twain shows his talent for outrageous and hilarious inventiveness, often in reaction to current events
