"Dovunque era lei, là era l'Eden" Forse è un po' banale iniziare una recensione con la frase più significativa del racconto, ma è anche quella che ne permette una (ri)lettura con occhi nuovi. E poi, come mi disse tempo fa un'amica, "in essa è contenuto il significato della parola amore". Eva ed A...
Eve's diary is comical, and beautiful. I did laugh while reading it- without actually knowing it was about Adam and Eve. : )I like the intensity of such a read. The history and the wit. I could have related- very much so. It is such a pity that he should feel so, for brightness is nothing; it is ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, a re-read! This is one of those books I won't tire of reading. This is my favourite passage in the book, simply because I am a girl and we girls can go on and on about the men that we love. ;-)After The Fall"The Garden is lost, but I have found HIM, and am content. He loves ...
I read the version of this with the original, the french translation, and then the english translated from the french translation. It's a fun story. I hadn't read much of Twain's short stories, and the narrative and style was fun to follow. His notes about the translation issues are almost funn...
When I first heard about this book, I couldn't stop smiling. I have read everything that Mark Twain wrote, and having this new taste from his grave is a mighty treat indeed. If you are a fan of Samuel Clemens, you MUST pick up this quick read of essays and lectures he decided to publish from th...
And why is this awful difference made between white and black? - Tom Driscoll Sewaktu ditugaskan untuk membaca Huckleberry Finn, saya tidak sanggup untuk menyelesaikannya. Bukan karena masalah dialek, tapi lebih karena penuturannya yang menurut saya agak sedikit bertele-tele. Meskipun begitu, sa...
Whether it's the gods smiling on me, blind coincidence, narcissism, or a combination of the three, world events sometimes have a way of coinciding with whatever I'm reading. For instance, the week after I finished reading All the President's Men, Mark Felt revealed himself to be Deep Throat, brin...
When newspapers serials sell by "continues ..", authors yank up guffaws, groans, titters, tears, tack on more, and more. Start silly #54 "My father was a St Bernard, my mother was a colllie, but I am a Presbyterian" p 489. End sad "the humble little friend is gone where go the beasts that perish ...
Even after a hundred years, you can’t beat Mark Twain for originality. After fiddling around with the idea of an autobiography or memoir for a couple of decades, rejecting most of his efforts as too literary, he finally around 1902 hit on the idea of 1) eschewing chronology; and 2) dictating rath...
This little book from the Gutenberg Project has several fairly short, essays within an essay about how to properly tell a humorous story.Mark Twain (AKA Samuel Clemens) became a popular writer with good reason. He writes well, handles dialects in a manner that is accurate and maintains the dignit...
این داستان دربارهٔ پادشاه ششم انگلستان که در ربع دوم قرن شانزدهم میلادی میزیست نوشته شده است. در یکی از روزهای پاییزی، در خانواده‌ای فقیر، پسری به دنیا آمد که خانواده‌اش نمی‌خواستند به دنیا بیاید. ولی در همان روز در خانوادهٔ پادشاه انگلستان - هنری هشتم – پسری به دنیا آمد که نه تنها خانواده‌اش ب...
The sun shines on Tom Sawyer. The idealized childhood of this fictional hero, based on Mark Twain's own early life along the banks of the Mississippi, is filled with robust good humor and high-spirited adventures. Yet there is also an in-depth experience of the central South of the 1840s--its dia...
Conocido también como el testamento antirreligioso de Mark Twain (1835-1910), fue publicada mas de 50 años despues de su muerte, en 1962, luego de haber leído su contenido, podría entender las razones. Me parece que leí una edición distinta a la presente en la cual escribo mi crítica. Como sea me...
A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a “rich boy.” Yet through the novel’s humorous escapades—from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe—Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishon...
Join Tom Sawyer's wild adventures along the banks of the Mississippi River in this exciting addition to the Step into Classics line. Tom and his best friend, Huck Finn, share exciting make-believe escapades as treasure hunters, swashbuckling pirates, and soldiers in battle. They also unwittingly ...
Originally the story was called "Those Extraordinary Twins." I meant to make it very short. I had seen a picture of a youthful Italian "freak" -- or "freaks" -- which was -- or which were -- on exhibition in our cities -- a combination consisting of two heads and four arms joined to a single body...
awoke out of an unrefreshing nap, and muttered to himself, “Troublous dreams, troublous dreams! Mine end is now at hand: so say these warnings, and my failing pulses do confirm it.” Presently a wicked light flamed up in his eye, and he muttered, “Yet will not I die till he go be...
(MTA, 1:7–10). The text itself shows that Clemens wrote it in 1877, heading it simply “Chap. 1” (omitted by Paine). Neider copied Paine’s version (errors and all), but he left off the last sixty words and inserted three paragraphs from “My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It],” two after the f...
There was no end of room, we had it to waste. Big or little chambers for all-suit yourself, and change when you liked. For a kitchen we used a spacious room which was high up over the massive and frowning gateway of the castle and looked down the woody steeps and southward over the receding plain...
So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This was bad—not best, anyway; for mine was not (preferably) a noonday kind of errand. The more I thought the more that fact pushed itself upon me—now in one form, now in another. Finally, it took the form of a distin...
Clemens is born in Florida, Missouri. 1839 The Clemens family moves to Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. 1847 His father, John Marshall Clemens, dies March 24. 1849-1851 Apprentices with Joseph Ament, printer; sets type for the Hannibal Courier. 1853 Leaves Hannibal for St. Louis; spe...
Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he alwa...