David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s new graphic novel ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ is an imaginative retelling, in comics, of Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Inspired by Twain’s tales, Krueger decided to write about young people, desperate to swap corruption for freedom, who embark on a turbulent river journey. The resulting standalone novel, 'This Tender Land' (Atria, Sept.), combines outdoor exploits and a meditation on the human condition. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Works by Ángela Lago, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Omaima Ezadeen are on the first reading list announced by the United Nations' new SDG Book Club. The post SDG Book Club Issues First Reading List on Sustainable Goals at Bologna appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
North American publisher Doubleday Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, will this year release a previously unfinished children’s book by Mark Twain. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: Mark Twain's round-the-world comedy tour, plus a devilish Highsmithian thriller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
What Twain eventually learned, after an interminable time on the trail, is that turkeys have a genius for feigning injury. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: adventures in the human body, new Colum McCann, and the dark side of Mark Twain. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Homeless busker James Bowen was helped in his struggle against addiction by the companionship of a stray cat. Now his books charting their friendship have propelled him into an elite publishing clubSamuel Johnson used to buy oysters for his cat, Hodge; Charles Dickens was so distressed when his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,” Mark Twain once said, “it is time to pause and reflect.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the University of California Press, in November 2010, published The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, it was in for a surprise: the 760-page hardcover, priced at $45, became an immediate bestseller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]