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A charming depiction of a bygone era in American history, combined with many tall tales and humorous anecdotes, “Life on the Mississippi” is one of Mark Twain’s most famous works of non-fiction, one which would establish him as one of 19th century America’s premier humorists. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874341679404,"sku":"","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","description":"\u003cspan\u003eMark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament. Tom's classic whitewashing of the fence has become part of American legend, and the book paints a nostalgic picture of life in the middle of the nineteenth century. Tom runs away from home to an island in the river, chases Injun Joe and his treasure, and even gets trapped in a cave for days with Becky Thatcher.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874458857772,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"mark-twain-the-prince-and-the-pauper","title":"Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper","description":"\u003cspan\u003eThe Prince and the Pauper is a delightful piece of historical fiction set in 1547. The young British Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII, switches place with a young pauper boy, Tom Canty, who happens to look exactly like the Prince. Tom takes over royal duties when King Henry dies and enjoys life in the palace. The real Prince is tossed out on the streets of London and learns about the life and misery of the common people of England at the time. The real Prince Edward ruled until his early death at the age of 15.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965464310060,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-wit-wisdom-of-mark-twain","title":"The Wit \u0026 Wisdom of Mark Twain","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRenowned as a novelist, journalist, and humorist, Mark Twain is not only one of the most widely read and admired American writers, he is also among the most quoted. Wit and repartee permeate his work — from the short, light pieces to his great novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and even later, in dark meditations on the human condition where his humor takes on a cynical, satirical twist. \u003cbr\u003eThis remarkably inexpensive volume gathers together hundreds of Twain's most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel, and a diversity of other topics that occupied his thoughts over 50 years of writing and lecturing.\u003cbr\u003eAn invaluable, ready reference for writers, speakers, and others in search of amusing and insightful quotes, this entertaining and thought-provoking compilation is also an ideal introduction to Twain's inimitable style and thought.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44969227616556,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"mark-twain-the-divided-mind-of-americas-best-loved-writer","title":"Mark Twain The Divided Mind of America's Best-Loved Writer","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe life and writings of a beloved American writer illuminate the Gilded Age and reveal his ambivalence toward the changes wrought by industry and wealth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike the steamboat on which Mark Twain adopted his pen name, the industrial growth that swept America in the latter half of the nineteenth century prompted Americans to react variously with delight, awe, fear, excitement for the future, and nostalgia for a simpler time. David Levy's biography places Mark Twain and his work in the context of sweeping societal changes: westward expansion, the Civil War, American imperialism, the end of slavery and start of a new chapter in race relations,  and the advances and excesses of the Gilded Age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLibrary of American Biography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44970605379884,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"mark-twain-an-issustrated-biography","title":"Mark Twain An Issustrated Biography","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErnest Hemingway called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \"the best book we've ever had. There was nothing before. There's been nothing as good since.\" Critical opinion of this book hasn't dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words. Mark Twain was the most famous American of his day, and remains in ours the most universally revered American writer.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, and Dayton Duncan (authors of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJazz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLewis and Clark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBaseball\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) comes this audio companion to the PBS film of the same name. It pulls together material from a variety of published and unpublished sources. It examines not merely Twain's justly famous novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries and letters. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens' boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker - when he adopted the sobriquet \"Mark Twain.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwain believed that \"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.\" This paradox fueled his hilarity and lay at the core of this irreverent yet profoundly serious author. With essays by Russell Banks, Jocelyn Chadwick, Ron Powers, and John Boyer, as well as an interview with actor and frequent Twain portrayer Hal Holbrook, this audio provides a full and rich portrayal of the first figure of American letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44970908614956,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"mark-twain-a-tramp-abroad","title":"Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAbout A Tramp Abroad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would be likely to begin his signature with an initial, and spell his middle name out.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Tramp Abroad \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a humorous travelogue by celebrated American author Mark Twain, first published in 1880. It recounts the author’s journey with his friend Harris (a fictional creation based on his real friend Joseph Twichell) across central and southern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn typically satirical and entertaining form, Twain relates the various encounters and situations which ensue, putting himself in the humorous role of the typical American tourist in the 19th century, under the misapprehension that they understand all that they perceive. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Tramp Abroad \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eincludes a raft voyage down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44973250216236,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"mark-twains-best","title":"Mark Twain's Best","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest Eight Great Short Stores by America's Master Humorist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMark Twain's writing has been wildly popular ever since he put pen to paper, and now its popularity has continued into the new century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMark Twain was well known as a great American short-story writer as well as a novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, the well known and the lesser known, displays his best-known side, as a master of Western humor and frontier realism, with little of the pessimism that surfaced in his later works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44976390504748,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"tom-saywer-and-huckleberry-finn-hardback","title":"Tom Saywer and Huckleberry Finn Hardback","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) features one of the best-loved characters in American fiction. The novel is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in the 19th century, in which Mark Twain spent his own youth. A sombre undercurrent flows through the high humour and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality - base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley, the book matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. The child's ingenuous gaze on the flaws of civilized people feeds the virulent satire of an hypocritical society. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was first trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river - 'Mark Twain', phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep and therefore safe, became the pen name by which he acquired worldwide fame.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44978177671468,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"mark-twain-joan-of-arc","title":"Mark Twain Joan of Arc","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVery few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides, the French and the English. Because of Mark Twain's antipathy to institutional religion, one might expect an anti-Catholic bias toward Joan or at least toward the bishops and theologians who condemned her. Instead one finds a remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers. The very fact that Mark Twain wrote this book and wrote it the way he did is a powerful testimony to the attractive power of the Catholic Church's saints. This is a book that really will inform and inspire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45012467843372,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"mark-twains-library-of-humor","title":"Mark Twains Library of Humor","description":"","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47318089531692,"sku":"","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"roughing-it","title":"Roughing It","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47318099689772,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"life-on-the-mississippi-1","title":"Life on the Mississippi","description":"","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47318104572204,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-adventure-of-tom-sawyer","title":"The Adventure of Tom Sawyer","description":"","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47318109028652,"sku":"","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/collections\/mark-twain.oembed","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}