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Mark Twain Links for Learning
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Learning resources for teachers and students about Mark Twain : books, videos, posters, links information.
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Books by and about Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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- Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography - by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns: lavishly illustrated companion book to the Mark Twain PBS series; a cogent, colorful portrait of the man who forged our national identity.
- Follow the Equator: A Journey Around the World - View the world through the eyes of America’s most celebrated author, Mark Twain.
- The Autobiography of Mark Twain - "Mark Twain’s autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."--From the Introduction by Charles Neider
- Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain - by Ron Powers; an imaginative re-creation of Samuel Clemens’s boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - anthology of Twain’s sixty short stories.
- The Unabridged Mark Twain - two volumes contains original, unaltered versions of Twain’s work in chronological order.
- The Quotable Mark Twain - 1,800-plus quotations included in The Quotable Mark Twain, more than half do not appear in any other collection.
- The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations - hundreds of Twain’s most memorable quips and comments.
- The Gilded Age and Later Novels - published in the Library of America series.
- The War Prayer - tells of a patriotic church service held to send young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering, telling the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.
- Project Gutenberg Complete Mark Twain Etexts -
The Prince & the Pauper - Twain's historical tale about Edward VI and a pauper who exchange places by accident just days before Henry VIII's death.
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