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 Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and Twain's last work, "The Mysterious Stranger," published posthumously in 1916.[...]

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 river town of Hannibal, Missouri. Many of the story's characters and episodes are constructed from the author's early adve[...]

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.[...]

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 alike. Almost by accident, the boys exchange places a few days before Henry's death and Edward's coronation, leaving Tom t[...]

Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment. Here is a handsome reproduction of the original edition of this wonderful tale of adventure and sel[...]

"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children." "It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." "Never tell a lie--except for practice."
This attractive gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of eminently quotable quips. Discover Twain's views [...]

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 finest works of speculative fiction. Twain applies his wit and imagination to the spinning of tales about mental telepathy, i[...]

The text of this new scholarly edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the first ever to be based on Mark Twain's complete, original manuscript - including its first 665 pages, which had been lost for over a hundred years when they turned up in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. The text has been t[...]

Six years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of "The Mysterious Stranger", which he patched together from Mark Twain's three unfinished manuscripts, produced, Paine asserted, during a period of supposed creative paralysis[...]

Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and traged[...]