Mark Twain

From the pen of America's master, Mark Twain, comes this classic and beloved story of boyhood freedom.When we first met "the pariah of the villagethe son of...

Tom, Huck, and Jim begin a new journey to Africa aboard a futuristic hot-air balloon! As they navigate encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas, they also...

As springtime comes, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have developed a bad case of spring fever. When Tom's Aunt Sally invites them to Arkansas, their malady...

The concept of this story was given in a preface by author Mark Twain. He wrote:The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and...

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America, but to the...

Most people are unaware that Mark Twain spent over a decade researching Saint Joan of Arc and wrote what he considered to be his greatest work-Personal...

The Mississippi River, known as "America's river," and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain's steamboat and...

Few people know that Mark Twain 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....

In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler...

In April 1878, Mark Twain and his family traveled to Europe. Overloaded with creative ideas, Twain had hoped that the sojourn would spark his creativity...

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War. This...

In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that...

From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public ... In Shorts! is a collection of forty classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest...

';I've struck it!' Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ';And I will give it awayto you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until...

Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator. This vivid chronicle of a sea...

Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, wrote: "Papa...doesn't like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he...