Mark Twain: 1276 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In A Tramp Abroad (1880), written eleven years after the best-selling Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain claims to be mad for adventure. Instead, he is more likely to scale a mountain by telescope or launch a fantasy expedition...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in...

Un americano alla corte di re Artù racconta la storia di Hank Morgan il più yankee degli yankees: nato ad Hartford, nello Stato del Connecticut il quale si ritrova inspiegabilmente catapultato nella mitica Camelot, sotto il regno del leggendario re britannico Artù. Hank, uomo dotato di grande abilità...

Il paradiso, la vita nell'aldilà: senz'altro uno dei chiodi fissi di Mark Twain, tanto da averne scritto più e più volte.Qui si presenta l’imperdibile Captain Simon Wheeler's Dream Visit to Heaven, uscito nel 1909, appena sei mesi prima della scomparsa dell’Autore, pubblicato in queste pagine...

Nel 1867 Mark Twain salpa da New York per un viaggio che lo porterà in Europa e Medio Oriente. Dai resoconti scritti in questi lunghi mesi, poi riuniti in un unico volume, nasce The Innocents Abroad, che divenne uno dei libri di viaggio più diffusi del suo tempo. Oggi, a 150 anni di distanza, le...

Oltre che uno dei più grandi narratori della storia, esponente di spicco della letteratura americana dell'Ottocento, Mark Twain è stato anche un acuto, attento, spietato osservatore della realtà quotidiana degli uomini. La sua attività di pilota di battelli a vapore lo portò a contatto con una...

Dopo la Guerra di Secessione si verificò in America un fenomeno di crescita economica improvvisa e sconvolgente. L'espressione "The Gilded Age", usata per indicare quel periodo, fu coniata da Mark Twain per il titolo di questo libro (scritto in collaborazione con Charles Dudley Warner e...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a children's novel by the American writer Mark Twain; this is the first of two related works between them, the second of which, sort of ideal below, is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the novel are narrated the adventures of a boy who lives in the southern United...

"Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire." Written on hotel stationary while in Europe on the run from American creditors, soon after the death of a daughter, The Man That Corrupted Handleyburg is often cited as a...

In this short 1904 work, from late in his career, Mark Twain imagines how Adam was introduced to Eve. “This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company...” Twain also published a companion volume, Eve’s Diary.

Roughing It relays the escapades of Mark Twain as he traversed the American West over a six-year period. Blending the natural with the supernatural, Twain trades off between personal anecdotes and tall tales, using what he calls the West’s “vigorous new vernacular;” his account is informative as well as humorous.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In it, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally...

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrationsFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Mark Twain’s classic of American humor was the last book to be published in the author's lifetime. It tells the story of a crusty American sea-dog who...