The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Diary of Adam and Eve
A collection of short stories including "1,000,000 Bank Note" written late in Twains career when he was facing financial problems. In the title story, a smart, honest, American man through a series of accidents ends up penniless in 19th century...
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.
Twain, a brash young journalist with one book under his belt, was one of seventy-seven passengers on the steamship Quaker City when it left New York in June 1867, to begin ?The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion.? As special correspondent for the...
Titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte", this work was supposedly written by Joan's page and secretary. This volume covers her time as a youth in Domremy, as well as the first half of her...
A collection of stories from one of the masters of American fiction and humor. This volume of Twain's short stories represents some of his author's finest work, including the title story, which follows a stranger's plot to corrupt a purportedly...
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of...