William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell,...
Desde que existe o fascismo, existe o antifascismo – também conhecido como "antifa". Nascido da resistência a Mussolini e Hitler na Europa durante os anos 20 e 30, o movimento...
"Um início poderoso de uma série [que] oferece uma combinação de protagonistas determinados e circunstâncias desafiadoras, para envolver completamente não apenas jovens, mas...
Oliver has always wanted to be a dancing elephant, but what will he do when he discovers the circus already has enough elephants? Beginning readers will laugh out loud as they...
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adams life from happiness in the GARDEN-OF-EDEN to their fall from...
...if I should talk to a stenographer two hours a day for a hundred years, I should still never be able to set down a tenth part of the things which have interested me in my...
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny,...
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains The Jumping Frog in the original English, followed by a French translation...