Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(1835 - 1910)
Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “the Great American Novel.”
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Roughing It (1872)
An account of the author’s adventures in the West, in particular among the mining camps. It was published in England in two volumes, the second part titled The Innocents at Home. Read online at archive.org.
Runaways and Castaways (1908)
A selection of stories of adventure from well known authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
F. Anstey
Charles Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Bret Harte
Charles Kingsley
Mark Twain
Saint Joan of Arc (1919)
This biography of the saint was originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 1904. It comprises the introductory essay and the final chapter of the author’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Read online at archive.org.
Howard Pyle
The Stolen White Elephant, Etc (1882)
Eighteen articles and stories. Read online at archive.org.
To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
A pamphlet condemning imperialist powers at the turn of the twentieth century for their atrocities in South Africa, China and the Philipines, among others. Read online at archive.org.
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
Tom, Huck and Jim embark on an airship and travel to North Africa. Read online at archive.org.
Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories (1896)
Twenty essays and stories. Read online at archive.org.
A. B. Frost
Tom Sawyer Detective: As Told by Huck Finn, and Other Tales (1897)
This British edition contains the original text of Extracts from Adam’s Diary as well as the title story and five other pieces.
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894)
The son of a free woman and the son of a slave woman are switched at birth. Is it nature or nurture that determines their character? Those Extraordinary Twins was written first as a satire, but the story of the two children and Pudd’nhead Wilson became such a large part of it that it was hived off as its own tragedy. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at archive.org.
C. H. Warren
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
The story of a walking tour of Germany and Italy, enlivened and augmented by numerous digressions and discursions. Read online at archive.org.
Benjamin Henry Day
W. W. Denslow
True W. Williams
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