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Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious...
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The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
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Modern Library
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English
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Thirteen stories deal with small town southern life, love, betrayal, murder, and arson. Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the stories in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published the Sound and the Fury. They deal with many of the themes found in the novels and with the subjects and characters of small town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's....
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Library of America volume 112
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
12) The mansion
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Snopes Family volume 3
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English
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"The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable postbellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation."--P. [4] of cover.
13) Big woods
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Random House
Pub. Date
[1955]
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English
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The hunter and the hunted are movingly portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.
14) Snopes
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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These three full-length novels compose the Snopes trilogy. In "The Hamlet," the cunning Flem Snopes is introduced with other members of his conniving family. Flem's dream is to marry Eula Varner and remake the small world of Frenchman's Bend as his own personal kingdom. In "The Town," Flem sets his sights on the county seat of Yoknapatawpha County, Jefferson, in a ruthless bid for even more power. Finally, in "The Mansion," Mink Snopes brings down...
19) A Cidade
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Livros do Brasil
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2016.
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Portuguese
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"Foi num belo dia de sol que Flem Snopes, acompanhado da mulher, do bebé e de meia dúzia de pertences, entrou na cidade de Jefferson. A ascensão astuciosa deste aldeão com fama de salteador, incendiário e ladrão de cavalos não passara despercebida aos habitantes da sede do lendário condado de Yoknapatawpha e é pois com expectativa que aguardam os seus próximos passos. Pela voz de três narradores de fiabilidade variável, A Cidade relata...
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