Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts.
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His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period. The premise of the story is great- mistaken identity, murder, mystery...but I could not get into Twain's style of writing. And the second tells of a reflective Mark Twain. This tale of murder and mistaken identity in a small Southern town is Twain's allegory for the absurdity of basing a person's worth on the color of their skin.
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Once the narrator travels to the spot of the meteor landing he discovers it is actually a cylinder and the cylinder contains Martians. Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson may just be a better read than that way more famous book of his, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.According to some bigwigs in the literary world, Twain's 1894 novel is superior to Huck Finn for its honesty and should be considered "an unrecognized classic" ().
Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Narrated by: By:
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M4B audio book (196mb) Download … H. G. Wells. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels.
Du Bois’ writing draws on his early experiences, from teaching in the hills of Tennessee, to the death of his infant son, to his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.
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Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.
Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. By: By: Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
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Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renowned musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. By:
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. Sarah Orne Jewett, Narrated by: Befriending a small group of boys, Satan exhibits strange charm, compassion, and indifference as the tale comes to a surprising comclusion.
LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. Price New from Used from Kindle "Please retry" $0.60 — — Considered one of Twain's most important short works, The Mysterious Stranger tells the story of the devil coming to a medieval village in the persona of a beautiful, lovable, yet exasperatingly amoral young man.
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In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills.
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This story is about a young soldier, Henry Fleming, fighting in the American Civil War.