<div>The Wild West as Mark Twain lived it In 1861, Mark Twain joined his older brother Orion, the newly appointed secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey from Missouri to Carson City, Nevada. Planning to be gone for three months, Twain spent the next &ldquo;six or seven years&rdquo; exploring the great American frontier, from the monumental vistas of the Rocky Mountains to the lush landscapes of Hawaii. Along the way, he made and lost a theoretical fortune, danced like a kangaroo in the finest hotels of San Francisco, and came to terms with freezing to death in a snow bank&mdash;only to discover, in the light of morning, that he was fifteen steps from a comfortable inn. As a record of the &ldquo;variegated vagabondizing&rdquo; that characterized his early years&mdash;before he became a national treasure&mdash;Roughing It is an indispensable chapter in the biography of Mark Twain. It is also, a century and a half after it was first published, both a fascinating history of the American West and a laugh-out-loud good time. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Roughing It

<div>Mark Twain&rsquo;s historical fable explores what happens when the Prince of Wales changes places with a young beggar Set in sixteenth-century England, The Prince and the Pauper follows two boys with vastly different lives: Tom Canty, the indigent child of an abusive, roustabout thief, and Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII and heir to the throne. One day, daydreaming while wandering near the king&rsquo;s palace, Canty catches sight of the prince&mdash;and nearly catches a brutal beating from the royal guards. Prince Edward commands them to stop and invites the street urchin into his immaculate home. Both fascinated by their strikingly similar appearances, the two boys craft a plot that could unwittingly upend the monarchy: to temporarily switch clothes, thereby swapping lives. Through first-hand experience&mdash;and a series of humorous follies&mdash;the two discover that neither life is as carefree as they expected. In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain elevates the classic theme of mistaken identity with his inimitable storytelling to create something uniquely American: a historical fable. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Prince and the Pauper

<div>This collection of suspenseful stories from legendary authors will test your detective instincts and imagination. A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, O. Henry, and Mark Twain. Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come with an irresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, the reader, to determine how they end. For ultimately it&rsquo;s the reader who authors the fate of the brave youth as he contemplates which of the two doors in the king&rsquo;s arena he will choose in Frank Stockton&rsquo;s famous and unforgettable &ldquo;The Lady, or the Tiger?&rdquo; And which of the two brothers in three-time Edgar-winner Stanley Ellin&rsquo;s &ldquo;Unreasonable Doubt&rdquo; shoots a bullet square in the middle of their rich uncle&rsquo;s forehead? And just what not-so-sweet secret is the prim Miss Spence hiding behind her smile in Aldous Huxley&rsquo;s deliciously enigmatic tale? You decide. In all, as in &ldquo;The Moment of Decision&rdquo;&mdash;a chilling tale that seals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavy wooden door, which may or may not open&mdash;the moment of decision is yours.</div>

Mark Twain's Medieval Romance

<div>Mark Twain&rsquo;s classic satirical tale of time travel and Arthurian legend Hank Morgan is a supervisor at a firearms factory in Hartford, Connecticut. Following a violent argument with a man named Hercules, Hank is surprised to find himself under an oak tree, staring up at a man on horseback in full armor. The year is 528, and Hank has somehow landed in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court in Camelot. Worse still, Hank is ridiculed by the boorish knights, brought in front of the Round Table, and sentenced to burn at the stake. Will Hank die at the hands of the Knights of the Round Table, or can his Yankee ingenuity save his hide? Mark Twain&rsquo;s seminal satire sends up the South&rsquo;s ridiculous preoccupation with chivalry, the Catholic Church, fear of science and progress, and dozens of other behaviors and beliefs. Credited as a foundational work of the time travel subgenre of science fiction, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court is also a timeless comic classic. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

<div>The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero&mdash;from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral&mdash;are the stuff of legend, and the cast of characters, including Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and the Widow Douglas, is one of the most recognizable in American literature. A tale of friendship, fun, and intrigue that celebrates the rural life Mark Twain knew as a boy growing up on the Mississippi River, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer mixes good-natured humor with thoughtful consideration of serious issues such as race, religion, and the strictures of adult life. Amusing and insightful for readers of all ages, it is one of the most enduring novels in American literature. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

<div>Mark Twain&rsquo;s masterpiece and the greatest of American novels. Tom Sawyer&rsquo;s best friend, Huckleberry Finn, takes center stage in this classic tale of boyhood adventure. Fleeing his drunken father and the civilizing influence of the Widow Douglas, Huck and the runaway slave Jim pilot a log raft down the mighty Mississippi River. The colorful characters and dramatic situations they encounter along the way&mdash;from bloodthirsty thieves lurking in an abandoned steamboat to a pair of aristocratic conmen dead set on robbing Arkansas blind&mdash;draw the two escapees closer together, until Huck is forced to make a fateful choice between Jim&rsquo;s freedom and his own salvation. One of the first major novels written in an American vernacular, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an essential part of the national identity. Its sophisticated treatment of serious themes such as the evils of slavery, the individual versus society, and the conflicting impulses of human nature, make it as vital and important today as when it was first published more than one hundred and thirty years ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

<div>The book that made Mark Twain famous and introduced theworld to that obnoxious and ubiquitous character: the American tourist Based on a series of letters first published in American newspapers, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain&rsquo;s hilarious and insightful account of an organized tour of Europe and the Holy Land undertaken in 1867. With his trademark blend of skepticism and sincerity, Twain casts New World eyes on the people and places of the Old World, including London, Paris, Rome, Odessa, Constantinople, Damascus, and Jerusalem. He skewers the idiosyncrasies and pretensions of Americans abroad and delights in tormenting the local tour guides. In Lake Como, he insists that Lake Tahoe is nicer. In Genoa, he and his fellow travelers claim they&rsquo;ve never heard of Christopher Columbus. First published in 1869, The Innocents Abroad made Mark Twain a national celebrity. For the rest of the author&rsquo;s life, it outsold all his other books, and remains one of the bestselling travelogues of all time. Part satire, part guidebook, it&rsquo;s a must-read for fans of this inimitable author and anyone who has experienced the pleasure and the pain of being a tourist. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Innocents Abroad

<div>A stirring tribute to America&rsquo;s mightiest river by one of its greatest authors Before Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, world-famous satirist and the acclaimed creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, he trained to be a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. In this captivating memoir and travelogue, Twain recounts his apprenticeship under legendary captain Horace Bixby, an exacting mentor who teaches his charge how to navigate the ever-changing waterway. The colorful details of life on the river&mdash;from the reversals of fortune suffered by riverboat gamblers to the feuds waged by towns seeking to profit from the steamboat trade&mdash;fascinate Twain, and in his hands become the stuff of legend. Years later, as a passenger on a voyage from St. Louis to New Orleans, he vividly describes the stunning changes wrought by the Civil War and the steady advance of the railroads. A valuable piece of history and a revealing look at the origins of a national treasure, Life on the Mississippi is a true classic of American literature. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Life on the Mississippi

<div>A Southern town scandalized by the murder of its most prominent citizen uncovers a mystery even more shocking in this ironic suspense story from a great American master Afraid for her infant son&rsquo;s life, a slave switches the boy with her master&rsquo;s child. A young New York lawyer fascinated by palmistry and fingerprint analysis moves below the Mason&ndash;Dixon line, makes a bad joke, and is immediately and forever branded a &ldquo;pudd&rsquo;nhead.&rdquo; Two Italian noblemen pay a visit to Dawson&rsquo;s Landing, Missouri, and become prime suspects in the murder of a local judge. From these disparate plot strands, Mark Twain fashions a humorous and entertaining tale with all the elements of the traditional murder mystery: a case of mistaken identity, a gruesome crime, a sinister villain, an eccentric detective, a climactic courtroom showdown, and an ingenious solution. But beneath this potboiler&rsquo;s pomp and circumstance lurks a clear-eyed and savagely compelling indictment of slavery and its poisonous effects on American society. Twain&rsquo;s last novel set in the antebellum South, Pudd&rsquo;nhead Wilson offers his clearest and most provocative condemnation of racial prejudice. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Pudd'nhead Wilson

<div>America&rsquo;s greatest satirist sets his sights on England&rsquo;s most celebrated detective in this boisterous tale of revenge, murder, and the limits of logic Tortured, humiliated, and abandoned by her fianc&eacute;, a woman gives birth to a boy with an unusual gift. Blessed with a bloodhound&rsquo;s sense of smell, Archy Stillman can track a man clear across the country. His mother, who has spent sixteen years dreaming of vengeance, finally has the means to achieve it. She sets her teenage son on his father&rsquo;s trail with instructions to ruin the man as thoroughly as he ruined her. Years later, Archy has been swept up in the California Gold Rush when a deadly explosion rocks his mining camp. The accused, an English immigrant, begs the help of his visiting uncle: the legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes. But the incomparable investigator will find that in the Wild West, his brilliant powers of deduction are no match for Archy&rsquo;s superhuman nose. A delightful send-up of the mystery genre, A Double Barrelled Detective Story is thrilling fun from first page to last. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

<div>A Nebula Award winner presents tales that shaped modern science fiction and fantasy&mdash;five complete novels by Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, and more. In this handpicked collection, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Greg Bear travels back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when novelists let their imaginations soar beyond conventional boundaries of time and space and contributed to the emergence of imaginative new literary genres. In 1889, Mark Twain introduced Americans to time travel in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court, in which a hard-headed New Englander is sent back through history to the age of chivalry. Six years later, H. G. Wells propelled an intrepid inventor into the far future via The Time Machine; there, our fearless hero discovers a nightmarish evolutionary scenario in which technologically advanced but mutated Morlocks dwell underground, preying on the innocent aboveground Eloi. In 1912, long before Ray Bradbury or Star Wars, Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined the first wildly popular alternative fantasy/alien culture with A Princess of Mars, transporting readers from Arizona to the red planet, where Confederate soldier John Carter is swept up in another kind of civil war and seduced by a gorgeous red-hued princess. In 1920, Scottish novelist David Lindsay presented A Voyage to Arcturus, an interstellar quest for truth as well as an inquiry into the nature of good and evil that inspired generations of fantasy writers to come. And in 1922, E. R. Eddison turned the planet Mercury into a fantasy version of Earth where demons and witches wage war on a Homeric scale in The Worm Ouroboros. With an insightful introduction, Bear celebrates the writers who first swept readers away to other times and worlds&mdash;and blew their minds in ways that altered our literary landscape and collective imagination forever.</div>

Journeys Through Time &amp; Space

<div>The classic, partly fictional travelogue through late-nineteenth-century Europe by the great American satirist and author of Innocents Abroad.Based on true events&mdash;embellished with fictional tales and a made-up travel partner&mdash;Mark Twain&rsquo;s A Tramp Abroad chronicles his meandering journey through Germany, the French and Swiss Alps, and Northern Italy. Attempting to make the trip by foot, Twain ventures down the Neckar river by raft, ascends Mont Blanc by telescope, and experiences European life with his usual penetrating wit, infectious curiosity, and timeless humor. Along the way, Twain offers his thoughts on the role of &ldquo;The Portier&rdquo; in European hotels, a vivid description of &ldquo;Heidelberg Castle,&rdquo; and his unvarnished opinion of &ldquo;The Awful German Language,&rdquo; as well as a few tall tales, such as &ldquo;The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby&rsquo;s.&rdquo;</div>

A Tramp Abroad

<div>The fictional memoir of the fifteenth-century French heroine by the author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court. Mark Twain&rsquo;s final novel&mdash;and, by his own account, his best&mdash;is a fictional record of the life of Joan of Arc, as recorded by her loyal page and secretary, the Sieur Louis de Conte. In it, the celebrated satirist shows his great admiration for the Maid of Orl&eacute;ans. Beginning with her humble childhood in the French village of Domr&eacute;my, de Conte recounts Joan&rsquo;s visions of Archangels and her divine quest to take control of the French army and liberate her country from the English at the age of seventeen. From her remarkable victory over the English at Orl&eacute;ans, her Bloodless March to Rheims, and the coronation of King Charles VII, the story progresses finally to Joan&rsquo;s tragic defeat and imprisonment, the high drama of her trial, and her execution at the hands of the English.&lt;/</div>

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

<div>These four timeless classics of American fiction explore the trials of growing up and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century American life.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Escaping society, Huckleberry Finn and a runaway slave named Jim take a log raft down the Mississippi River. Their adventures draw them closer together until Huck must make a fateful choice between Jim&rsquo;s freedom and his own salvation. One of the first major novels written in an American vernacular, Mark Twain&rsquo;s masterpiece is an essential part of the United States&rsquo; national identity.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: This tale of youth and friendship celebrates life on the Mississippi River with humor and thoughtful consideration of issues such as race, religion, and social taboos. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasure, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, this highly entertaining novel boasts a cast of immortal characters, including Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and the Widow Douglas.The Prince and the Pauper:Set in sixteenth-century England, this historical fable tells the story of a prince and a peasant boy who meet by chance and discover their strikingly similar appearances. The two then craft a plot that could unwittingly upend the monarchy: to temporarily switch clothes, thereby swapping lives.Pudd&rsquo;nhead Wilson:An enslaved woman switches her infant son with her master&rsquo;s child. A New York lawyer moves to the South and is immediately and forever branded a &ldquo;pudd&rsquo;nhead.&rdquo; Two Italian noblemen in Missouri become suspects in the murder of a local judge. From these disparate plot strands, Twain fashions a humorous tale of mystery&mdash;and a clear-eyed indictment of slavery.</div>

The Novels of Mark Twain Volume One

<div>These three novels by the great American satirist transport readers across the ocean to Europe and back in time to Camelot and the Hundred Years&rsquo; War. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court: A supervisor at a firearms factory in Hartford, Connecticut, Hank Morgan inexplicably finds himself transported back in time to Camelot. Worse still, he is brought before the Round Table and sentenced to burn at the stake. Will Hank die at the hands of King Arthur&rsquo;s knights, or can his Yankee ingenuity save him? A seminal work of time travel fiction, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&rsquo;s Court is also an enduring comedic classic. A Tramp Abroad: Based on true events, Mark Twain&rsquo;s travelogue through late nineteenth-century Europe is embellished with fictional tales and a made-up travel partner. Wandering mostly on foot, Twain meanders through Germany, the French and Swiss Alps, and Northern Italy. He also ventures down the Neckar river by raft, ascends Mont Blanc by telescope, and experiences European life with his usual penetrating wit, infectious curiosity, and timeless humor. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: Twain&rsquo;s final novel&mdash;and, by his own account, his best&mdash;is an imagined memoir of Joan of Arc. Beginning with her humble childhood in the French village of Domr&eacute;my, it recounts her visions of Archangels and her taking control of the French army at the age of seventeen. From her victory over the English at Orl&eacute;ans and her Bloodless March to Rheims, the story progresses finally to Joan&rsquo;s tragic defeat and execution by the English.</div>

The Novels of Mark Twain Volume Two

<div>These three travel memoirs by the beloved author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn capture nineteenth-century life in America and beyond. Life on the Mississippi: Before Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, he trained to be a Mississippi River steamboat pilot. Here Twain recounts his apprenticeship under legendary captain Horace Bixby, the dramatic fates of riverboat gamblers, and much more. Years later, as a passenger on a voyage from St. Louis to New Orleans, he witnesses the changes wrought by the Civil War and the steady advance of railroad transportation. The Innocents Abroad: Based on a series of letters first published in American newspapers, this is Twain&rsquo;s hilarious and insightful account of an organized tour of Europe and the Holy Land, undertaken in 1867. With trademark satirical wit, he skewers the pretensions of Americans overseas and delights in tormenting local tour guides. First published in 1869, The Innocents Abroad made Twain a national celebrity and remains one of the bestselling travelogues of all time. Roughing It: In 1861, Twain joined his older brother on a stagecoach journey from Missouri to Carson City, Nevada. Having planned to be gone for only three months, he spent the next &ldquo;six or seven years&rdquo; exploring the great American frontier, from the Rocky Mountains to Hawaii. Along the way, he made and lost a theoretical fortune, danced in the finest hotels of San Francisco, and came to terms with freezing to death in a snow bank&mdash;only to discover, in the light of morning, that he was fifteen steps from a comfortable inn.</div>

Collected Nonfiction

<div>This collection of Twain&rsquo;s fiction and nonfiction on the subject &ldquo;provides insight into the war&rsquo;s influence on this great American writer&rdquo; (The Post and Courier, Charleston). Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, Clemens served two weeks in the Missouri State Guard before he fled west to begin his career as a writer. After the Civil War dramatically altered the course of Twain&rsquo;s life and career, his thoughts and stories about the war were published widely. Mark Twain&rsquo;s Civil War marks the first opportunity for readers to survey the full range of his Civil War writings in one volume. The book contains autobiographical pieces as well as fiction, making it an enlightening read for both Twain enthusiasts and Civil War scholars.</div>

Mark Twain

Books By Mark Twain (17 Books)