Mark Twain

"I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle – with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes; and there is no telling how much …

While in London in 1897, Mark Twain was commissioned by William Randolph Hearst to report for the San Francisco Examiner on the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria�s ascension to the throne. …

Presented as a translation by Jean Francois Alden of Joan of Arc's page and secretary the Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc fir…

Mark Twain�s classic travelogue The Innocents Abroad firmly established him as a writer and humourist of dazzling perspicacity. <br/> The story chronicles what Twain called his «Great Pleasure E…

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain&amp;#39;s literary personality. <br/> It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history…

In the sequel to Tom Sawyer, his sidekick Huckleberry Finn takes centre stage. <br/> Innocent and well-intentioned, Huck is brought face to face with the reality of slavery in the southern state…

One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, T…