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Personal Recollections Joan ARC
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER is an amusing, nostalgic look at boyhood on the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century, and is based on Mark Twain's memories of his youth in the …
Pudd'Nhead Wilson
The Gilded Age
It began as a dinner-party contest: when Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner criticized the deplorable quality of their wives' reading material, the two writers were …
What Is Man?
Life on the Mississippi
The Mississippi River and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. Known as "America's river," the popularity of Twain's steamboat and steamboat pilots on the …
The American Claimant
The Prince and the Pauper
Set in Renaissance England, "The Prince and the Pauper" tells the story of Tom Canty, a ragged pauper, and young Edward VI, only son of Henry VIII, who miraculously look exactly …
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
'Cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town because he was idle, and lawless, vulgar, and bad - and because all their children admired him so', Huckleberry Finn, …
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
In this classic satiric novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, falls unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he …
The Mysterious Stranger
Includes 4 memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," first published in 1865; "The1,000,000 Bank Note," …
The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain
Although best known for his novels, Mark Twain was a prolific writer of short stories, many of which involved elements of science fiction--and this compilation highlights his …