Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us and A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget. (Summary by John...

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...

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...

In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is...

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...

A river memoir documenting Twains early days as an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. Reminiscing about his happy experiences as a...

What Is Man?, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of...