What happens when a modern American engineer suddenly finds himself in the world of King Arthur? In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain combines time travel, medieval adventure, humor, and sharp social commentary in one of American literature's most imaginative classics. Hank Morgan, a practical nineteenth-century American engineer, is mysteriously transported back to medieval England during the reign of King Arthur. Armed with modern knowledge and technology, Hank atte...

Travel down the mighty Mississippi River with one of America's greatest storytellers. In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain combines memoir, travel writing, history, humor, and vivid observation to create a fascinating portrait of life along one of America's most important waterways. Drawing upon Twain's own experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, the book takes readers into the world of river navigation, steamboats, river towns, travelers, pilots, and the communities t...

A boy and an escaped slave drift down the Mississippi on a raft, and in the space between the riverbanks, Twain stages one of American literature's fiercest moral reckonings. Funny, harrowing, and unflinching about the hypocrisy of "civilized" society, Huckleberry Finn follows Huck's growing refusal to betray his friend Jim, no matter what the world tells him is right. Hemingway called it the book all modern American literature comes from — a claim the novel still earns, page after page.

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Before he was America's greatest storyteller, he was a teenager who talked his way onto a steamboat and learned to read a river like scripture.Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi is part coming-of-age memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to a vanishing world of paddlewheelers, riverboat pilots, and the thousand-mile stretch of water that made him. He recounts his apprenticeship learning the treacherous currents and shifting sandbars of the Mississippi, then returns decades later to f...

Whitewashed fences, buried treasure, a faked funeral, and a terrifying turn in a pitch-black cave — Tom Sawyer talks, schemes, and swindles his way through the most vivid boyhood ever put on the page. Twain's affectionate, sharp-eyed portrait of small-town Missouri life turned childhood mischief into American mythology, and Tom himself into literature's original lovable troublemaker. Pure, page-turning fun that hasn't aged a day.

Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. 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 unscrupulous ‘Duke’ and ‘Daupin’. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents — of slavery, adult contro...

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This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Mon...

After a blow to the head, a practical, wisecracking Connecticut engineer wakes up in sixth-century England — and immediately sets about "fixing" the Middle Ages with 19th-century know-how, from telephones to gunpowder, while King Arthur's knights look on in bewilderment. What starts as satire on medieval romance turns into something sharper: a warning about what happens when progress meets power without wisdom. Twain at his funniest and most cutting — a time-travel fantasy that's really an...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) follows the adventures of young Huck Finn, who, determined to escape a life of abuse and social conventions, embarks on an unforgettable journey down the Mississippi River alongside Jim, a runaway enslaved man seeking freedom. Throughout their voyage, the two encounter danger, swindlers, prejudice, and moral dilemmas that test their friendship and forever change the way they understand the world. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of American literat...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...