Mark Twain

"Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her light-skinned baby for her masters." *** "While it retains the comic exuberance of 'Huckleberry Finn, ' this is Twain's darker and more disturbing account of human nature under slavery."

Considered to be one of America's all-time brightest authors, Mark Twain has left his mark on the literary world. Authoring such gems as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Twain's insight on the ever-evolving and expanding America gave the world a better understanding on the social issues that plagued the country. Here in his own words, Twain chronicles his life and career, offering some perspectives on how his books were created.

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

In the last book published during Mark Twain's lifetime, the spirit of a deceased ship captain takes a voyage to Heaven, and learns many interesting things about the Afterlife.

A man who loves to place bets acquires a remarkable frog, which he claims can outjump any other frog in the county.

Selected works of humor and criticism by a revered American master. Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still taught to anyone who attends school and is considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Twain's shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled...

"This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition...

"The mysterious stranger, a ghost story & ten more great tales!" -- Cover.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.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,...