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Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xv, 243 page ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but also the triumphantly successful Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Twain finally tells the story of his past...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a reprint of the Iowa-California text of "Huckleberry Finn", accompanied by explanatory annotations, complete with original illustrations. "Contexts and Sources" provides a selection of documents related to the novel's composition, publication and initial reception.
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
GN 750L
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's classic tale of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi River and life in the antebellum South.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Azar Nafisi's bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran ended with her arrival in America with her young family, carrying little more than the beloved books that helped her survive in revolutionary Iran. The Republic of Imagination gives us the next chapter in Azar's journey, as she settles into her new life as a teacher in Washington, DC, and wonders what it means to become an American citizen. She turns for an answer to the writings of the Founding fathers...
Author
Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has...