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Encuadernación: Cartoné.Colección: Grandes clásicos.Twain dejó escrito: El producto más franco, más libre y más privado de la mente y del corazón humano es una carta de amor. Este epistolario inédito hasta ahora en español (que abarca desde el noviazgo de la pareja en 1867 hasta la muerte de Olivia Livy Langdon en 1904) revela no sólo la íntima parcela sentimental del genial escritor estadounidense, sino también el aspecto profesional de su carrera. En muchas de las cartas aparece el espíritu filantrópico del novelista, su sentido de la solidaridad y su hondo desasosiego por el ser humano. Pero, sobre todo, como bien señala Rubén Pujante Corbalán en su postfacio, la utilización maestra del humor es el matiz que fluctúa en la correspondencia como testimonio de un estilo personal. Son las anotaciones humorísticas, los pequeños comentarios jocosos, los chistes y anécdotas graciosas los que amenizan la lectura de las cartas y despiertan la sonrisa y la carcajada complaciente del lec

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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Tom Sawyer’s best friend on his wildly entertaining exploits with runaway slave, Jim, recounted in vernacular English and vibrant descriptions of life along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society, which had ceased to exist at the time of its publication, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often regarded as a scathing satire on the institution of racism and the attitudes that supported it. However, it is also a playful story about the joys and evils of childhood as well as the limitless possibilities it allows. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.

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Tom Sawyer's energetic anticstreasure hunting, fishing, and general mischief-makinghave captured the imaginations of children for almost 150 years.Now, this abridged edition of the classic story is refreshed with an appealing new cover and contemporary interior illustrations. The Classic Starts series has sold more than 8 million copies since it launched in 2004. These abridged, kid-friendly editions are the perfect way to introduce beloved stories to the next generation. Each book includes discussion questions by early childhood educator Arthur Pober, EdD.

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Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck's fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on it. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Miss Watson’s slave, Jim, who has run away after learning that Miss Watson may sell him. Jim plans to head north, find work, and buy his wife and children out of slavery. Huck joins him on a salvaged raft, beginning a raucous journey that transforms into a deep reckoning with human frailty and the hypocrisy of the antebellum South.

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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 dishonesty and superstition, revenge and justice.

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This critical edition publishesfor the first time anywherethe original manuscript and revised versions of Pudd'nhead Wilson. Mark Twain's story of the antebellum South, first published in 1894, continues to prompt conversations about race and the dire legacy of American slavery. At its heart is Roxy, a mixed-race woman enslaved to a wealthy Missouri family. To save her infant son (whose father was white) from being sold down the river, Roxy switches him in the cradle with her master's son, setting in motion a train of ironic and bitter events. With its mixture of farce, social commentary, tragedy, and satire, Pudd'nhead Wilson has come to be one of Mark Twain's most-read and most-studied works. But few have read the original Pudd'nhead Wilson. The text familiar since 1894, as editor Benjamin Griffin shows, was heavily edited and censoredfirst by the author himself under pressure from family and friends, then by his publishers. Now the Mark Twain Project makes available the full t

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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.Originally published in 1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the classic tale of a carefree and courageous boy’s coming-of-age in a rural Mississippi River town. Tom and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, are two of literature’s most enduring and treasured creations. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written in 1876, this is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Now he found out a new thing – namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.’ An idyllic snapshot of a boy’s childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author’s work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt and anxiety. A ‘coming of age’ tale, it is through Tom’s adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirises the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy’s journey into adulthood.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.’ Set in 16th-Century England and following the lives of two young boys, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic and timeless tale. Tom Canty, the lowly pauper is almost identical in appearance to Edward Tudor, a prince. Unbeknownst to those around them, the boys strike up an unlikely friendship and soon realise that with their similar looks they could easily pass for one another. When the Prince’s father dies, some of the more underhand court officials persuade the pauper to act as the Prince in order to reap the benefits of the ‘mistake’ and there follows a tale of friendship and growing up in one of Mark Twain’s most infamous works.

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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers

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Rediscover Puffin Classics - timeless stories for each new generation.Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays and their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is prince, heir to King Henry VIII of England, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But fate intervenes, and their identities become confused. Soon the prince is thrown out of the palace in rags, leaving ignorant Tom to play the part of a royal prince.Lightly abridged for Puffin Classics.

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'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson, #1 bestselling author of Big Sky Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: BárbarosEdad Recomendada: A partir de 14 añosTras un incidente fronterizo, el rey de Siam envía como presente a la reina de Inglaterra un elefante blanco, animal sagrado y destinado en exclusiva a la realeza. En una de las escalas del viaje hacia Londres, alguien roba el elefante blanco en Nueva York, hecho que desata una gigantesca farsa protagonizada por el autoproclamado genio de los detectives de Nueva York, el corrupto e incompetente inspector Blunt. Acompañan a este cuento varias hilarantes historias de Mark Twain, precedentes del gran humor sorpresivo e inteligente de los hermanos Marx.

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Teñido de la ironía y de la peculiar visión del mundo propias de Mark Twain (1835-1910), ?Los diarios de Adán y Eva? es un breve y delicioso librito que reúne dos obras afines que ahondan en el eterno contraste entre hombre y mujer, en sus distintas sensibilidades, en sus maneras de enfrentarse a la vida y de manejarla. Aunque atados, inevitablemente, a ciertos estereotipos, bajo los textos late, asimismo, una manifiesta corriente de ternura. Y es que, si es muy plausible que Twain escribiera el ?Diario de Eva? (1905) a modo de póstuma declaración de amor a su mujer Olivia Langdon, también lo es que modificara en consecuencia, como sugiere su colofón, el anterior ?Diario de Adán? (1892).Edición ilustrada

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Encuadernación: Rústica.Colección: Confabulaciones; 50.[...]Mi tío reflexionó. Un nuevo desengaño lo mataría. Resolvió entonces tomar como objeto de su devoción algo que nadie coleccionaría. Sopesó cuidadosamente los pros y los contras de la decisión que estaba a punto de tomar, y una vez m s bajó a la arena para luchar con denuedo. Se haba propuesto iniciar una colección de ecos. [...] De todos los escritores del mundo, tal vez sea Mark Twain quien más haya disfrutado contando sus personales historias. No es extraño, por tanto, que el lector se divierta y reflexione con su ingenio y originalidad, con su implacable visión de la naturaleza humana, y fundamentalmente, con su incisivo e inteligente sentido del humor.

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