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    Classic Short Stories - Volume 5: Hear Literature Come Alive In An Hour With These Classic Short Story Collections
    Classic Short Stories - Volume 5: Hear Literature Come Alive In An Hour With These Classic Short Story Collections
    Classic Short Stories - Volume 5: Hear Literature Come Alive In An Hour With These Classic Short Story Collections
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    Classic Short Stories - Volume 5: Hear Literature Come Alive In An Hour With These Classic Short Story Collections

    Written by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott and Edward Lear

    Narrated by Stuart Milligan, Eve Karpf and James Taylor

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    About this audiobook

    Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements. Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page.

    Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft. Many attempt, but few achieve.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateMar 3, 2020
    ISBN9781839673726
    Classic Short Stories - Volume 5: Hear Literature Come Alive In An Hour With These Classic Short Story Collections
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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