Books with title BUA THE WHITE ELEPHANT

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[Children's Fiction (Ages 10-12)][Read by Traber Burns] An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery Queen Free passes to the circus seemed pretty exiting to Djuna and his friend Tommy Williams, and things promised to be even more exiting when they met their old friends, Socker and Cannonball at the entrance gate, but they were only the start of a hair-raising experience. The boys soon learned that the newspaper reporter and the state trooper were trying to uncover a pack of tricksters who were cheating the circus audiences; and as one strange and frightening event follows another, Djuna and Tommy are caught up in the glittering, upside-down world of the circus, and find themselves in the middle of one of the most weird and dangerous mysteries they have ever encountered!

[Children's Fiction (Ages 10-12)][Read by Traber Burns] An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery Queen Free passes to the circus seemed pretty exiting to Djuna and his friend Tommy Williams, and things promised to be even more exiting when they met their old friends, Socker and Cannonball at the entrance gate, but they were only the start of a hair-raising experience. The boys soon learned that the newspaper reporter and the state trooper were trying to uncover a pack of tricksters who were cheating the circus audiences; and as one strange and frightening event follows another, Djuna and Tommy are caught up in the glittering, upside-down world of the circus, and find themselves in the middle of one of the most weird and dangerous mysteries they have ever encountered!

The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain is an extraordinary farce, a detective story that mocks all detective stories and a tragicomedy that attempts at shedding light on how ridiculous some pieces in the genre really are.The story told in the form of telegraphs revolves around a white elephant that was offered as a gift from the King of Siam to the Queen of England, but disappeared in New Jersey as it was on its way to the destination. The local police start investigating, but they are unsuccessful. Mark Twain’s humor is at its best in this satirical short story. His irony is directed against the police forces, making one mistake after the other, blunders that make story even funnier.The telegraphs that give the novel its shape are from the various detectives sent to investigate the clues considered worthy of tracking by the master detective – a vain and superficial man looking not for a way to find the elephant, but for a way to achieve fame and glory. The hilarious story unfortunately ends in a sad note – the white elephant is found dead. The tragic end is reached after lots of detours and after chaos becomes uncontrollable, the death of the poor creature coming as the ultimate solution to the mystery of the theft.The Stolen White Elephant is a classic Mark Twain story – satirical, witty and funny, providing a unique take on the events and on the character of the participants. The writing is humorous the Mark Twain way – it has social criticism, it provides a large inventory of human vices, of vanities and of fallible characters. The reader will sympathize with some of them, will have strong negative feelings towards others, but one thing is sure: The Stolen White Elephant is hilariously entertaining from beginning to end.

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Excerpt from The Two White ElephantsOh, perfectly - perfectly. Miss Elsie beamed through her spectacles. You have done it very thor oughly, indeed. I do not see how you can earn many quarters if you are always so conscientious.He wiped his eye-glasses with a clean pocket-hand kerchief, but he gave Miss Elsie no information on this point.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.