Nathan Osgood

Daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a...

Chapters from My Autobiography is a collection of twenty-five pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September 1906 and December 1907.Rather than following the standard form of an...

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality.It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to...

Classic short stories exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship from the master of American fiction.First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories,...

Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style.False Dawn (1840s): Mr. Halston Raycie sends...

A non-fiction autobiographical story by Mark Twain in which he talks about his early days of riding on a steamboat throughout the Mississippi River. His experiences on this river would later help him write his famous fictional stories including the...

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young female slave, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's, leading to a novel whose plot rages as a savage indictment of racial prejudice and slavery. Written in...

In the sequel to Tom Sawyer, his sidekick Huckleberry Finn takes centre stage.Innocent and well-intentioned, Huck is brought face to face with the reality of slavery in the southern states as he helps his friend Jim escape to freedom. Duration - 9h...

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...

Mark Twain’s classic travelogue The Innocents Abroad firmly established him as a writer and humourist of dazzling perspicacity.The story chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through...

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I...

Tom Sawyer Abroad features Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories.In the story, Tom, Huck & Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers & fleas to...

The fourth title in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series.Based on true events from an old Swedish crime case, Tom Sawyer sets out to solve a mysterious murder in this satirical detective novel. Duration - 20h 39m. Author - Mark Twain. Narrator -...