When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the
All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."" Ernest Hemingway To escape from his violent and dru
Join Huck and Jim as they journey down the Mississippi in this beloved companion to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and a standalone classic in its own right, with a fresh new cover and interior illustra
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that ev
Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents A
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is based on Mark Twain’s own childhood in the Mississippi port of Hannibal. Te details are true to a small American town in the middle of the 19th century.《湯姆歷險記》是根據馬克吐溫在密西
“ I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment.” Huckleberry Finn has a hard life with his father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changes everything. But when Huck’s dad returns an
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of 'the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. A
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, wh
′You can′t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.′Knocked unconscious, it is only when mechanic Hank Morgan comes to that he finds himself in 6th-century England rather than ninete
"The Yankee is a jewel. Nobody will ever be able to read, much less teach, it without this book." American LiteratureA Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work: a tour de force with a s
"You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd literary remains' and unpublished letters of Mark Twai
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, searches for treasure i
Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, t
You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' publishe
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa; and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Missi
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA nineteenth-century American travels back in time to sixth-century England in this darkly comic social satire.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION IN
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineeri
What began life as a sequel to Tom Sawyer quickly became one of the most important of all American novels, in an exuberant and gently nostalgic tale in which a young hobo and an escaped slave set off
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics?series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new
In A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain's unofficial sequel to The Innocents Abroad, the author records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights while on a fifteen-month walking trip through Central
These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years with spirited travelsacross the American West and all the way to Hawaii.Fromthe stage drivers and desperadoes of the
Set in the quaint hollow of Deer Lick, a mythical town resembling Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri, this bizarre tale chronicles the fortunes of a humble farmer, John Gray, determined to marry off his
Successor to Twain's first collection of travel memoirs takes a second look at Europe. In A Tramp Abroad, Twain's abundant humor waxes as freely as ever; this time, however, his amusement bears a more
This less-well-known tale of Tom's exploits is narrated by Huck Finn, who recounts their trip by river steamer to visit Aunt Sally in "Arkansaw." When the boys encounter an acquaintance who's being pu
Hank Morgan finds himself transported backto England's Dark Ages— where he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, he's quick-witted, and in the proc
The popular 19th-century humorist offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice steamboat pilot on one of the world's greatest rivers to views from the passenger deck in the twil
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, wh
Includes hundreds of Twain's most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel, and diverse other topics, among them "He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty"; "Get yo
Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands inFollowing the Equator. The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific O
Join Tom Sawyer's wild adventures along the banks of the Mississippi Riverin this exciting addition to the Step into Classics line. Tom and his bestfriend, Huck Finn, share exciting make-believe escap
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this
"Don't scold me, Livylet me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no questionfor you are my world, my life, my pr
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson. Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain
This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur
Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living with the dregs of society in Offal Court, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Lo
