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10 best books like Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review (Mark Twain): Nonsense Novels, Letters of Two Brides, Meet Me in St. Louis, Sal Mineo: A Biography, To School Through The Fields, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, The Bear That Wasn't, Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London, Pigs Is Pigs, Christmas Every Day

Nonsense Novels
AuthorStephen Leacock
ISBN1590171187
A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel Handler

Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among...
Letters of Two Brides
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN1406506559
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works....
Meet Me in St. Louis
AuthorSally Benson
ISBN1891442260
There are times when a film does a more enjoyable job with a book than the book does for itself. "Meet Me in Saint Louis" is one of the great old movie musicals, and probably provided the best performance ever given by Judy Garland. The book, on the other hand, is nothing extraordinary in the genre of happy-old-time-family...
Sal Mineo: A Biography
AuthorMichael Gregg Michaud
ISBN0307718689
Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s closest...
To School Through The Fields
AuthorAlice Taylor
ISBN0312105606
If ever a voice has caputured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hard back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
The Bear That Wasn't
AuthorFrank Tashlin
ISBN0486287874
"A fable for grownups that will be fun for children. Sit down with the book and get your own bearings." — New York Herald Tribune
With the first signs of approaching winter, the Bear's thoughts naturally turn to a cozy cave and a long snooze till spring. But when he awakes a few months later, he is surprised...
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
AuthorAndrea Warren
ISBN0547395744
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
Pigs Is Pigs
AuthorEllis Parker Butler
ISBN1410103226
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
Christmas Every Day
AuthorWilliam Dean Howells
ISBN0671003267
"'Here is a charming Christmas tale. Read this to your little one.' I took the book from her outstretched arm and examined the title, Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells." So wrote Richard Paul Evans in his bestselling The Christmas Box, which captivated millions of readers across America,...
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
AuthorLouisa May Alcott
ISBN0543896749
Some of the stories or some moments in the stories are really great, either really quirky or really sweet or really curious. At the same time, I do not feel these moments are enough of a reward in what is mostly an OK book. I had some issues getting through the entire manuscript, although I think I could attribute...
Miss or Mrs.?
AuthorWilkie Collins
ISBN1592244017
Persons possessed of sluggish livers and tender hearts find two serious drawbacks to the enjoyment of a cruise at sea. It is exceedingly difficult to get enough walking exercise; and it is next to impossible (where secrecy is an object) to make love without being found out. Reverting for the moment to...
Domestic Manners of the Americans
AuthorFrances Milton Trollope
ISBN0140435611
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was...
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
AuthorBertolt Brecht
ISBN1559704209
In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of a meat-packing plant. Like her predecessor, Joan...
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
AuthorJean H. Baker
ISBN0393305864
Mary Todd, daughter of the founders of Lexington, Kentucky, was raised in a world of frontier violence. First abandoned at the age of six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham...
Rosanna of the Amish
AuthorJoseph W. Yoder
ISBN0836190181
This book tells the story of a baby who was raised by an Amishwoman after the baby's mother died a few days after her birth. Pat McGonegal of Ireland had followed the love of his life, Bridget O’Connor, to America. Pat boarded with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder, and after he married Bridget, the two...
Patricia Brent, Spinster
AuthorHerbert Jenkins
ISBN0850461405
3.5 stars. This is a witty, somewhat fluffy British romance written in 1918. There's a meet-cute: Patricia Brent, a secretary in her twenties, lives in a boarding house with a bunch of rather catty gossips. One night she overhears a couple of them snidely commenting on her lack of dates. Incensed, she...
Alexander the Great
AuthorJacob Abbott
Alexander the Great is part of Makers of History, a 19th century biography series by two brothers--Jacob and John S.C. Abbott. Reprinted by Canon Press, these biographies have been edited and brought up-to-date for readers twelve and up. Not only are these editions given vintage style paperback covers,...
The Sea Lady
AuthorH.G. Wells
ISBN0755104196
"Much attention has been paid to the "scientific romance" novels of H. G. Wells, a founder of modern science fiction and one of the genre's greatest writers. In comparison, little attention has been given by critics to his works of fantasy, which in the opinion of many, are just as artistic and worthy...
History of the Conquest of Mexico
AuthorWilliam H. Prescott
ISBN0375758038
"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents...
Finding My Father: The journey from the father who caused the scars to the One who healed them
AuthorKevin Albright
Fathers have a profound impact on their kids. Kevin grew up as a Preacher's Kid (PK). His dad was the pastor of a dynamic church in southern California, and he wanted to be just like him. That is, until his life was ripped apart when a lady violently broke into their home. After beating his mom with a lead pipe...
Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most
AuthorTimothy Shriver
ISBN1429942797
On a quest for what matters most, Timothy Shriver discovers a radically different, inspiring way of life.

At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his...
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