Twain: 1286 books

During a chance encounter, two nearly identical boys, one a poor beggar and the other a prince, decide to exchange places. The pauper, now living in the royal palace, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is while the Prince, dressed in rags, lives on the...

'PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM, DEATH AND DEVASTATION FOLLOW!' From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic...

I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle − with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes; and there is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war−path and has his batteries belted on. He is over six feet, is young, hasn't...

SATURDAY.—I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did happen, and that I was not noticing. Very well; I...

Huck,figlio di un ubriacone, viene abbandonato dal padre. Vive per la strada e dorme in una botte da zucchero. La vedova Douglas, lo adotta e insieme alla zitella Miss Watson si prende cura della sua educazione. La parte del tesoro di Huck, che è stato trovato alla fine del precedente romanzo nella...

Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer sind typische Lausbubengeschichten. Generationen von Kindern haben diese Geschichten gelesen, und sie sind teilweise so frisch wie damals. "Tom war kein Musterknabe, aber er kannte einen und haßte ihn von Herzen."

Am Ufer des Mississippi liegt das beschauliche Städtchen, in dem Huck lebt - alles ist langweilig und zu ordentlich für ihn. Kaum zu glauben: Sein Vater versucht ihm zu verbieten, in die Schule zu gehen! Und so dauert es nicht lange, bis er unter abenteuerlichen Umständen fliehen muss. Huck, der...

Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer zählt zu den Klassikern der Jugendliteratur. Der Waisenjunge Tom lebt bei seiner Tante Polly, zusammen mit seinem Halbbruder Sid. Tom hingegen schwänzt gern die Schule, prügelt sich und treibt sich mit seinem besten Freund Huckleberry Finn herum. Tom und Huck beschließen...