Sketches, New and OldAmerican Publishing Company, 1899 - 414 עמודים 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 which Twain re-translated into English, showing how the French translation of his work was "badly flawed." In many of these sketches, Twain shows his talent for outrageous and hilarious inventiveness, often in reaction to current events |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 36
עמוד 12
... leaves were still turn- ing . It hurried up house rent , bills payable , and such things , in such a ruinous way that I could not abide it . I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated . He asked me if I had ever had it repaired . I ...
... leaves were still turn- ing . It hurried up house rent , bills payable , and such things , in such a ruinous way that I could not abide it . I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated . He asked me if I had ever had it repaired . I ...
עמוד 19
Mark Twain. 44 to be alive ; and added , " I leave it to you if you ever saw anything more deliriously picturesque than eight lightning - rods on one chimney ? " I said I had no present recollection of anything that transcended it . He ...
Mark Twain. 44 to be alive ; and added , " I leave it to you if you ever saw anything more deliriously picturesque than eight lightning - rods on one chimney ? " I said I had no present recollection of anything that transcended it . He ...
עמוד 32
... leave , I did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley , and so I started away . At the door I met the ...
... leave , I did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley , and so I started away . At the door I met the ...
עמוד 39
... leave more , not that he it masticate , you conceive , but he himself there shall be holding during until that one throws the sponge in the air , must he wait a year . Smiley gained always with this beast - là ; unhappily they have ...
... leave more , not that he it masticate , you conceive , but he himself there shall be holding during until that one throws the sponge in the air , must he wait a year . Smiley gained always with this beast - là ; unhappily they have ...
עמוד 46
... leave Buzzardville off to one side . On the contrary , they consider it one of the most important points along the line , and consequently can have no desire to slight it . The gentlemen of the Earthquake will , of course , take ...
... leave Buzzardville off to one side . On the contrary , they consider it one of the most important points along the line , and consequently can have no desire to slight it . The gentlemen of the Earthquake will , of course , take ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
asked avait beef contract began bien bless Cæsar Capitoline Venus Cardiff Giant chance Chemung county clerk Conchology Conrad creature dead distress dollars door editor face feel fell Fisher frog gentlemen George Fisher give gone Government grenouille hand hanged happy head heard heart honor hour hundred Indians insane insanity plea jist JULIUS CÆSAR kill knew lady legs little boy live look MARK TWAIN married matter ment mind Mormon trail morning Mound Builder never niggers night noble Old Red Sandstone once paper petrifaction Petrified poor Professor Woodlouse qu'il remark seemed seven-up Simon Wheeler Smiley sort stranger Sunday-school talk tell thing thought thousand tion told took Tumble-Bug turned Virginia City wait woman word Written about 1870 young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 86 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
עמוד 194 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
עמוד 27 - Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev.
עמוד 68 - THOSE evening bells ! those evening bells ! How many a tale their music tells, Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, When last I heard their soothing chime.
עמוד 28 - 49, or maybe it was the spring of '50 — I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other, is because I remember the big flume...
עמוד 31 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller, and says: "Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 282 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
עמוד 31 - And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?" "Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
עמוד 31 - And so the feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley's, and set down to wait. So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to...
עמוד 28 - ... initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse.