Results for Shelley Fisher Fishkin

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

Shelley Fisher Fishkin has written 37 work(s)

Search for other authors with the same name

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 12 >

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

The 1,000,000 Bank-note and Other New Stories

Nine stories include 'Mental Telegraphy,' 'A Cure for the Blues,' 'About All Kinds of Ships,' 'Playing Courier,' and 'A Majestic Literary Fossil'

By Malcolm Bradbury (introduced by), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195101447 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Nine stories include 'Mental Telegraphy,' 'A Cure for the Blues,' 'About All Kinds of Ships,' 'Playing Courier,' and 'A Majestic Literary Fossil'

The 1,000,000 Bank-note and Other New Stories

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114133 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $30.00

1601 And Is Shakespeare Dead

Product Description: 1601 is Twain's hilarious pornographic send-up of Elizabethan England. In Is Shakespeare Dead?, an aging Twain meditates on Shakespeare and on his own chances for immortality.

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114263 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: 1601 is Twain's hilarious pornographic send-up of Elizabethan England.

1601 And Is Shakespeare Dead?: And, Is Shakespeare Dead

Product Description: 1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risqué tales...read more

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195101607 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: 1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risqué tales.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (introduced by)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780451532145 | Signet Classic, July 2, 2013, cover price $7.95

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: And, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A new edition of two popular American novels presents Twain's classic works depicting the youthful escapades of two boys living along the Mississippi, accompanied by an updated bibliography and a new introduction. Reprint.

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (introduced by) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780451528643 | Signet Classic, December 1, 2002, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A new edition of two popular American novels presents Twain's classic works depicting the youthful escapades of two boys living along the Mississippi, accompanied by an updated bibliography and a new introduction.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches

Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114003 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches

Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

By Blount (introduced by), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (introduced by) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195101317 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

Chapters from My Autobiography

The author looks back on selected parts of his life and career

See complete details on each edition (13 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780559097737 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $36.99 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography

9780559097898 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $32.99 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography

9780195101560 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author looks back on selected parts of his life and career

Paperback:

9781515179252 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 22, 2015, cover price $12.95 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography

9781512159486 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 12, 2015, cover price $12.99 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography

9781502769510 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 9, 2014, cover price $7.99 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography | About this edition: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

9781500688875 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 30, 2014, cover price $7.99 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography

9781484003183 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 1, 2013, cover price $12.99 | also contains Chapters from My Autobiography

5 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Chapters from My Autobiography 1906-1907

The author looks back on selected parts of his life and career

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114256 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author looks back on selected parts of his life and career

The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Product Description: The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world...read more

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (foreword by)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780821416440 | Ohio Univ Pr, February 9, 2006, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780821418833 | 1 edition (Ohio Univ Pr, March 1, 2009), cover price $32.95 | also contains The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar | About this edition: The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889

Product Description: One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114102 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary.

The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America

Product Description: "The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America" is a comprehensive reference source on the human rights and civil liberties that are legally recognized in the US. The US Consitution and the Bill of Rights define individual rights for Americans...read more

By David Bradley (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780765680006 | M E Sharpe Reference, June 1, 1998, cover price $91.95 | About this edition: Entries identify key leaders, organizations, events, and strategies of the Civil Rights movement

Miscellaneous:

9780765680013 | 1 edition (M E Sharpe Reference, October 25, 2005), cover price $0.04 | About this edition: "The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America" is a comprehensive reference source on the human rights and civil liberties that are legally recognized in the US.

Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture

Product Description: This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century...read more

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312238582 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2009, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies.

Paperback:

9780230615946 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2009, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies.

Following the Equator and Anti-imperialist Essays

The author describes his experiences traveling around the world and criticizes colonial empires for their treatment of native subjects (view table of contents)

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor), Mark Twain and Gore Vidal (introduced by)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780195101515 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author describes his experiences traveling around the world and criticizes colonial empires for their treatment of native subjects

9780195114195 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Twain's intriguing last travel book, a narrative of his around-the-world tour of Australia, Asia, and South Africa, also includes two of his sharp-edged essays on western imperialism.

From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America

Discusses the lives and careers of Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Hemingway, and DosPassos, each of whom began as journalists

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780801825460 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Walt Whitman spent twenty-five years as a journalist before he published his first book of poems.

Paperback:

9780195206388 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 14, 1988), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses the lives and careers of Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Hemingway, and DosPassos, each of whom began as journalists

A Historical Guide to Mark Twain

(view table of contents)

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780195132922 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 3, 2002, cover price $42.00

Paperback:

9780195132939 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 3, 2002, cover price $38.95

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

Eight essays include 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences,' 'Travelling With a Reformer,' 'Mental Telegraphy Again,' and 'What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us'

See complete details on each edition (7 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114188 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Eight essays include 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences,' 'Travelling With a Reformer,' 'Mental Telegraphy Again,' and 'What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us'

Paperback:

9781502407450 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 9, 2015, cover price $9.99 | also contains How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

9781494807993 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 27, 2013, cover price $7.99 | also contains How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

9781481246989 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 13, 2012, cover price $7.99 | also contains How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

9781466402911 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 21, 2011, cover price $4.95 | also contains How to Tell a Story and Other Essays | About this edition: American writer Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain has given us some literary gems with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and his travel adventures in nineteenth-century Europe and to Australia and New Zealand.

9781463698645 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2011, cover price $10.99 | also contains How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

1 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Is He Dead: A Comedy in Three Acts

In a play by Mark Twain, a group of impoverished artists living in Barbizon, France, stage the death of a friend to increase the value of his paintings and in the process, must engage in cross-dressing, deception, and romantic intrigue in order to make their plot succeed. (Literature)

By Bancroft Library Mark Twain Project (corporate author), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor), Barry Moser (illustrator) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780520239791 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: A group of impoverished artists living in France stage the death of a friend to increase the value of his paintings and then must engage in cross-dressing, deception, and romantic intrigue in order to make their plot succeed.

Is He Dead: A Comedy in Three Acts

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor), Barry Moser (illustrator) and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780520248335, titled "Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts" | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $23.95

Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture

Explores the cultural influences of Twain and his stories

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780195105315 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 12, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Explores the cultural influences of Twain and his stories

Paperback:

9780195121223 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 11, 1998), cover price $34.99

Mark Train and His Illustrations

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780195101591 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $11.95

The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781598530650 | Library of America, March 4, 2010, cover price $35.00

The Oxford Mark Twain

Presents all of Mark Twains's books in the format in which they were first published, including the original illustrations

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Mark Twain

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780195114461 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $1250.00

9780195090888 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $495.00 | About this edition: Presents all of Mark Twains's books in the format in which they were first published, including the original illustrations

9780195113457 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 1, 1996, cover price $750.00 | About this edition: Presents all of Mark Twains's books in the format in which they were first published, including the original illustrations

The Oxford Mark Twain: Full Set

Product Description: Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark Twain speaks to us across time with verve and wisdom. On the occasion of the centennial of his death, Oxford is issuing a paperback set of our landmark 29 volume collection, The Oxford Mark Twain...read more

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780199733491 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 16, 2009, cover price $335.00 | About this edition: Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark Twain speaks to us across time with verve and wisdom.

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 12 >