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Volume 4: Short Story Classics is the last of four volumes of Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, a four-day-a-week, 30-week reading program for Christian homeschooled high schoolers. Containing many of the greatest short stories ever written, this volume is, like the other volumes of Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, complete with footnotes, study questions, "For Additional Thought" questions, and a free color-coded 30-week, four-day-per-week reading plan (via email). Here's what you get with the entire Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers four volumes: * Great Reads! Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers pulls together many of the greatest classic mysteries, short stories, science fiction works, and tales. * A Helpful, 30-Week Reading Schedule. No more "What should we read this week?" Each volume of Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers contains a 30-week, four-day-per-week schedule that maps out your student's literature reading for the year. Your family also gets a free download of a full-color, easy-to-follow version of the reading schedule. * A Christian Worldview. Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers is presented from a Bible-believing, Christian point of view, which is reflected in the selection introductions, footnotes, and review questions--many of which offer relevant scripture passages for students to research and compare to the literature selections. * Introductions, Footnotes, and Review Questions. These put writings into historical context, assist students in understanding archaic terms, clear up potentially hazy passages, and point the student to think about and understand important ideas presented. * Free Tests and Test Answer Keys. Classic Literature for Christian Homeschoolers includes 12 tests (via email request) covering the readings. Parents: Answer keys to the tests are included! * A Free Answer Key to Review Questions. Parents, you can discuss the questions at the end of each selection with your student--fully armed with the answer key! About Scott Clifton - Scott Clifton is a fervent homeschooling advocate and dad from North Carolina. Just SECONDS after his first child was born, as he took his little baby boy and held him close to his chest, he looked down and immediately knew--right then in his heart--that he would never be able to wear that particular shirt again. (Also, that he and his wife Julie would homeschool their children, which they have done since 1994.) In 2002, the Lord led Scott into the field of home school education, and that year he began teaching once-a-week high school classes full time as the owner and operator of Home School Partners.

"Dion’s current project, Concerning Hunting, examines hunting as a traditional, but controversial, cultural practice. One of the fascinating things about hunting is its fundamental contradictoriness: the sensitivity of the hunter and his profound knowledge about what nature requires are also expressed through the act of killing animals. Dion’s artistic examinations do not focus on nature as such, but rather on the hunt as a way culture deals with it"--

Like his other writings, Mark Twain's letters attest that he was not the greatest of all humorists, but that he did have an amazing gift of depicting the average American, and what is more, that he could do it sympathetically and from the inside of the house, not ironically through the window as Thackeray depicted the absurdities of his contemporaries. The letters show, also, what a storybook life he led. Born obscurely in a western town without advantages, half-educated as a typesetter for a country newspaper, a runaway, a soldier "riding a small yellow mule" to the aid of the Confederacy, a runaway again, a mining prospector familiar with mountain gambling-saloons, a news reporter, he at last acquired some fame with his "Jumping Frog." His reputation travelled east and he became a lecturer and special correspondent. Then, of a sudden, he made himself conspicuous to the entire country with his "Innocents Abroad." He became a mighty traveller. He was feasted by kings, decorated by universities, and honored everywhere. From Hartford all around the earth and back, he was a leading citizen of the world. The ingenious authors of the most shocking fiction could not invent plots swifter or more romantic. This editions contains the letters from the year 1853 all through 1910.

Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre-Civil War New York Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians settled in northern cities in pursuit of fame and fortune. Calling themselves "bohemians" after the misidentified homeland of the Roma immigrants to France, they established a coffeehouse society to share their thoughts and creative visions. Popularized by the press, bohemians became known for romantic, unorthodox notions of literature and the arts that transformed nineteenth-century artistic culture. Bohemian influence reached well beyond the arts, however. Building on midcentury abolitionist, socialist, and free labor sentiments, bohemians also flirted with political radicalism and social revolution. Advocating free love, free men, and free labor, bohemian ideas had a profound effect on the debate that raged among the splintered political factions in the North, including the fledgling Republican Party from which President Lincoln was ultimately elected in 1860. Focusing on the overlapping nature of culture and politics, historian Mark A. Lause delves into the world of antebellum bohemians and the newspapermen who surrounded them, including Ada Clare, Henry Clapp, and Charles Pfaff, and explores the origins and influence of bohemianism in 1850s New York. Against the backdrop of the looming Civil War, The Antebellum Crisis and America's First Bohemians combines solid research with engaging storytelling to offer readers new insights into the forces that shaped events in the prewar years.

The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life’s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore RooseveAutobiography’s "Closing Words” movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,” Mark Twain’s caustic indictment of his "putrescent pair” of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency. Fitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth century, Autobiography of Mark Twain has now been critically reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read. Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the complete Autobiography emerges as a landmark publication in American literature. Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. Ohge

"Mark Twain's Letters (1876-1885)" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Letters of Mark Twain” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. These letters were arranged in six volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. Table of Contents: Volume I — Letters 1853-1866 Volume II — Letters 1867-1875 Volume III — Letters 1876-1885 Volume IV — Letters 1886-1900 Volume V — Letters 1901-1906 Volume VI — Letters 1907-1910 Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Mark Twain's Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) is a collection of personal correspondence that offers a vivid glimpse into the life of the celebrated author during the late 19th century. The letters provide an intimate look at Twain’s professional journey, personal relationships, and experiences during his travels, capturing his thoughts with a characteristic blend of humor and insight. In the early part of the volume, Twain discusses the launch of his new book and his upcoming lecture schedule, expressing both excitement and tension as he prepares for his sea voyage. His humor shines through as he navigates the challenges of a hectic schedule, while also revealing his candid anxieties about public speaking and his relationships with fellow writers. As the journey unfolds, Twain shares brief updates from various ports, recounting encounters, impressions, and the peculiarities of international travel with a keen observational eye. The beginning of this volume sets the stage for a rich exploration of Twain’s formative years, brimming with anecdotes that illuminate the experiences shaping his literary voice. This collection serves as both a valuable resource for understanding Twain’s early life and a delightful read, filled with his trademark wit and vivid storytelling.