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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparked generations of discussion and debate. It is a novel by Mark Twain noted for its depiction of people and locations along...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer emanates self-confidence wherever he goes. With his buddy Huck Finn, pretty Becky Thatcher, cantankerous Aunt Polly and a host of others, let's begin a journey to the time of riverboats, fishin' holes, and midnight grave robbers. Each...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is the original American maverick. He chooses the things that feel the most comfortable for him, regardless of what others may say. But when he is forced to flee his home, and comes into company with Jim, a runaway slave, his sound...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"One of the best-loved and most famous characters in southern literature springs to larger-than-life size thanks to Thomas Becker's inspired delivery."-- School Library JournalWho could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer?...

A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...

Mark Twain 3 Complete Works

Mark Twain 3 Complete Works

Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens in 1835, was a celebrated American author, humorist, and social critic. Twain's life and writings are deeply intertwined with American history, capturing the essence of the 19th century and the spirit of the American...

More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com, consist of works printed in the Muscatine Journal,...

Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he began using the pen name Mark Twain. This compilation is the work of Project Gutenberg and contains articles...

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Puddn’head Wilson is Mark Twain’s novel of satirical wit aimed at the injustices in the southern states of America in the mid 19th century. It tells the story of two children, one born free, the other a slave. When the slaves mother, Roxana, switches...

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Presented as a translation by Jean Francois Alden of Joan of Arc's page and secretary the Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc first appeared as a serial in Harper's Magazine beginning in April of 1895. It is a...

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte is identified as Joan's page and secretary. For those who've always wanted to "get behind" the Joan of Arc story and to...

Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Mid-West Poets

Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Mid-West Poets

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where...

Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his...

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain...

Sketches New and Old

Sketches New and Old

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into English,...

The Innocents Abroad (version2)

The Innocents Abroad (version2)

Not Yet Available Author - Mark Twain. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad is a humorous travelogue by Mark Twain chronicling his journey through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American tourists. Twain offers a satirical and often critical perspective on foreign cultures and customs,...

Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia) Author - Mark Twain. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday,...

The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their wive's challenge and encouragement)....

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad

When you dive into Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century “touring” than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain...

One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name.This...

The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete

The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete

These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

First published in 1884, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the first novels in American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English. Some have called it the first Great American Novel, and the book has become required...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is a satirical novel written by Mark Twain. Published in 1889, the story follows the protagonist, Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who is mysteriously transported back in time...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

If ever there was a story written based unabashedly on adventure and trouble, this is it. There are treasure hunts and murderers on the run in this book that will keep you spellbound. Tom and his half-brother, Sid, lived with their aunt, Polly. Tom...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparked generations of discussion and debate. It is a novel by Mark Twain noted for its depiction of people and locations along...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer emanates self-confidence wherever he goes. With his buddy Huck Finn, pretty Becky Thatcher, cantankerous Aunt Polly and a host of others, let's begin a journey to the time of riverboats, fishin' holes, and midnight grave robbers. Each...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is the original American maverick. He chooses the things that feel the most comfortable for him, regardless of what others may say. But when he is forced to flee his home, and comes into company with Jim, a runaway slave, his sound...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"One of the best-loved and most famous characters in southern literature springs to larger-than-life size thanks to Thomas Becker's inspired delivery."-- School Library JournalWho could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer?...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...

A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph...

Mark Twain 3 Complete Works

Mark Twain 3 Complete Works

Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens in 1835, was a celebrated American author, humorist, and social critic. Twain's life and writings are deeply intertwined with American history, capturing the essence of the 19th century and the spirit of the American...

Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he began using the pen name Mark Twain. This compilation is the work of Project Gutenberg and contains articles...

More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com, consist of works printed in the Muscatine Journal,...