Mark Twain

"Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six-thousand dollars in the bank and the Widow Douglas as his guardian, Huck Finn faces unforeseen challenges. He bridles under the Widow's and Miss Watson's attempts to 'sivilize' him, as even Tom insists he become respectable. Then, Huck's father, Pap, shows up, determined to steal Huck's fortune. When things don't go Pap's way, he kidnaps Huck. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Jim, Miss Watson's slave,...

Offers a history of the river, describes Twain's experiences as a riverboat pilot, and shares tall tales, character sketches, and observations about the Mississippi.

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

"The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing."—New York Times Book Review Virtually none of the material in Letters from the Earth was published in Twain's lifetime and the manuscript was only approved by his executors in 1962. This is vintage...

In Mark Twain's short adventure tale 'Tom Sawyer Abroad', (1894) Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and their friend Jim travel to Africa in a hot air balloon. While there the trio encounter lions and bandits, while also visiting great wonders of the world like the Pyramids and the Sphinx. A sequel to the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the novel is a parody of the adventure stories of Jules Verne.

Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts

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Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.
"Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."—New York Times

"His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Con esta novela, Mark Twain continúa las historias de Tom Sawyer y Huckleberry Finn en 1884. La historia remonta a la infancia del inolvidable Huck Finn en el río Mississippi, quien va en búsqueda de la libertad junto a Jim, un muchacho negro que quiere escapar de la esclavitud. Adéntrate en esta obra maestra en la que Twain, con su prosa ágil y precisa, y un gran sentido del humor, escribe de manera magistral sobre la amistad, la adolescencia...

La vida en Saint Petersburg, un pequeño pueblo situado a orillas del Mississippi, al suroeste de Estados Unidos, es tan tranquila que incluso puede resultar aburrida. Pero Tom Sawyer, un muchacho curioso y travieso, se entretiene con cualquier hecho cotidiano, como pintar una valla, o no tan cotidiano, como perseguir a un malvado asesino o ir en busca de un tesoro, acompañado de su inseparable amigo Huck. Así, Tom es un niño idealista y sensible...

Presents Mark Twain's second imaginative travel book with hilarious anecdotes, tall tales, and humorous side bars as he is accompanied by his companion, Joe Twitchell, as they journey through Europe.