"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." Mark Twain's "tale" became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. Intricately plo
This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow P
"One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century.... If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have." London Telegrap
"The Yankee is a jewel. Nobody will ever be able to read, much less teach, it without this book." American LiteratureA Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work: a tour de force with a s
This 125th Anniversary edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is expanded with thoroughly updated notes and references, and a selection of original documents--letters, advertisements, playbills--so
在臺灣,信仰天主的人,應該沒有人不知道一位被人暱稱為「小賴」的神父。 事實上,這位「小賴」神父年齡一點也不小,他出生於一九一七年。他的中文名字是賴甘霖,西班牙文全名是Andrés Diaz de Rábago。《愛如甘霖》是賴甘霖神父的自傳。一如所有接觸過他的人都會感受到他的熱情,賴甘霖神父這本自傳裡也充滿著無處不在的熱情。他回顧了自己的童年,在什麼樣的家庭背景下培養出他的人格特質,以及他的基督信