Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work...

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the real Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowdens Life of Shelley. Even though, as Twain writes, Shelleys life has...

A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The...

The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took this reputation so to heart that they...

The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twains first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twains lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is...

Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adams life from happiness in the GARDEN-OF-EDEN to their fall from...

...if I should talk to a stenographer two hours a day for a hundred years, I should still never be able to set down a tenth part of the things which have interested me in my...

Uit de inleiding van de schrijver bij de originele Engelstalige uitgave (helaas niet in deze vertaling opgenomen): Ofschoon mijn boek hoofdzakelijk bedoeld is voor het plezier van...

A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)