Skradziony biały słoń

Mark Twain

Skradziony biały słoń to opowiadanie napisane przez Marka Twaina i opublikowane w 1882 roku przez Jamesa R. Osgooda. Jest to opowieść o tym, jak król Syjamu podarował białego słonia królowej brytyjskiej. Niestety słoń którejś nocy zniknął w New Jersey. Lokalny wydział policji robił wszystko, aby rozwiązać zagadkę, ale bez powodzenia. A jak się rzecz cała skończyła i co się stało z agentem, który owego białego słonia miał dostarczyć do Anglii dowiemy się po przeczytaniu całego opowiadania. Zachęcamy do lektury!

Tajemniczy przybysz

Mark Twain

"Tajemniczy przybysz" to opowieść, której dramatis personae stanowią trzej młodzi chłopcy - sam narrator jest również kilkunastoletnim chłopcem i nazywa się Teodor Fischer - lecz równie dobrze mógłby być Huckiem lub Tomkiem. Szatan zaś nosi charakterystyczne nazwisko Traum - co potwierdza, iż jego domeną są sny i marzenia. Wielowymiarowa postać młodego Szatana w tej powieści może też być rozpatrywana w psychologicznym planie jako wcielenie ukrytych pragnień tych chłopców. Wprowadza on ich w inną rzeczywistość, odsłania przed nimi przyszłość, przenosi z miejsca na miejsce, w jego obecności wszystko nabiera intensywności istnienia. Spotkanie z Szatanem staje się dla chłopców inicjacją we własną psychikę, ujawnieniem potencjalnych mocy, nigdy nie przeczuwanych, zepchniętych na samo dno podświadomości. Nadto fantastyka Twaina, podobnie jak w "Fauście" Goethego, gdzie Mefistofeles występuje jako alter ego bohatera, ma charakter metafizyczny.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer is the story of a young, mischievous boy and his comrades in the antebellum south. Tom (and Huck Finn, who youve also probably heard of before reading the books) gets himself into all sorts of shenanigans before ultimately becoming the most popular boy in town after accidentally witnessing a murder and finding a bunch of stolen money. He has a love interest, gets into some fights and annoys his aunt on nearly every page.In the end, Tom and Huck trap Injun Joe inside of a cave and recover his stolen gold, making themselves rich. Tom is a fairly good example of the average youngster. While his adventures may be grander than most, his selfishness and lack of compassion is not.

The American Claimant

Mark Twain

Incredible adventures await the young English Earl of Rosmore in the vastness of the distant United States. In search of the American dream, he finds his distant relative, the ingenious inventor, entrepreneur and ventriloquist Colonel Melberry Sellers, whose main project was the purchase of Siberia to establish a republic in it. An ambitious young count will face insurmountable difficulties on his way to the goal.

The Gilded Age. A Tale of Today

Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

The book reflects the state of 19th-century society in the United States votes in the Senate and Congress are bought and sold, all this is carefully hidden and masked. The curse of the Tennessee land, which could but did not enrich the young people who are the heirs of this land, is largely activated by the heirs themselves typical Americans of that time, who want to quickly make a fortune.

The Innocents Abroad. or The New Pilgrims Progress

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. When you dive into Mark Twains The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century touring than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow pilgrims, both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, the Holy Land, and Egypt. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the new world isdifferent from the old and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely civilized.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The town of Gedliberg boasted of the purity of its morals and virtuous humility. But once the city fathers had the opportunity to pass a test for these qualities. Some eccentric bequeathed a huge amount of money to his benefactor from Gedliberg, whose name does not remember. It remains only to go and impersonate the heir...

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mark Twain

Mysterious Stranger a mixture of medieval mystical tales and philosophical parables. In an Austrian village, in the ruins of an old castle, there is a medieval printing house. The master, apprentices, henchmen, their families live right there. A small limited world with well-established connections, a familiar way of life, suddenly and terribly changes. And the reason for this is a poor youth who once appeared on the threshold of an old castle. It was he who called himself a strange name and became the cause of such dramatic changes. It was he who, at first seeming an ordinary timid and executive guy, but in fact representing a kind of supernatural power