Books with author Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) Twain

Mark Twain's story of the Jumping Frog was first published in the New York Saturday Press in November, 1865. This version is from an 1875 edition of Twain's hilarious story and icludes both the original story and one supposedly "rescued" from a translation into French. Contains the original illustrations plus contemporary wood engravings depicting mining life.

First published in 1882 by Samuel Clemens, this "COMPLETE" book contains 18 of Mark Twain's best sketches (short stories), including the hilarious "The Stolen White Elephant". This is NOT a scanned copy. It is a digitized Kindle edition that has been edited (not for content) to appear as closely as possible to the original printed edition within the confines of the Kindle format. The following sketches are contained within this book:The Stolen White ElephantSome Rambling Notes of an Idle ExcursionThe Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in ConnecticutAbout Magnanimous-Incident LiteraturePunch, Brothers, Punch!A Curious ExperienceThe Great Revolution in PitcairnMrs. McWilliams and the LightningOn the Decay of the Art of LyingThe Canvasser's TaleAn Encounter with an InterviewerParis NotesLegend of Sagenfeld, In GermanySpeech on the BabiesSpeech on the WeatherConcerning the American LanguageRogersThe Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton

An incredible reproduction of the first edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Other than the color of the book and two lines on the copyright page saying that this book is a reproduction, this edition is an impressive match to the original. If you like the look and the history of the first edition copy but do not have the big bucks to purchase one, this is the perfect product for you!

This Short Story collection is Mark Twain's first publication. It contains 27 sketches, including the original "Jumping Frog" story. The volume has been carefully transcribed and edited to resemble the original 1867 printed publication as close as possible. The following sketches are included:The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyAurelia’s Unfortunate Young ManA Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San FranciscoAnswers to CorrespondentsAmong the FeniansThe Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to GriefCuring a ColdAn Inquiry about InsurancesLiterature in the Dry Diggings“After” JenkinsLucretia Smith’s SoldierThe Killing of Julius Cæsar “Localized”An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not UnderstandAmong the SpiritsBrief Biographical Sketch of George WashingtonA Touching Story of George Washington’s BoyhoodA Page from a Californian AlmanacInformation for the MillionThe Launch of the Steamer Capital Origin of Illustrious MenAdvice for Good Little GirlsConcerning ChambermaidsRemarkable Instances of Presence of MindHonored as a Curiosity in HonoluluThe Steed “Oahu”A Strange DreamShort and Singular Rations

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,huckleberry finn,huckleberry finn by mark twain,tom sawyer,tom sawyer and huckleberry finn,action adventure,coming of ageMark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most celebrated novels in American literature--arguably the greatest novel in American literature. As such, the book is frequently taught in high school English, college literature classes, American history classes, and every other opportunity teachers can find.The justification usually cited is its commentary on the social institutions of slavery and discrimination; however, no less important is the aspect of the story that demonstrates one boy's coming of age. Mark Twain ends The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with the cryptic statement: "So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly the history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man." Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, on the other hand, contains much less of the perpetual jokes and scrapes of the first book. Instead, Huck is faced with the emotional growing pains of becoming a man in a morally flawed society.At the beginning of the novel, Huck lives with the Widow Douglas, who wants to "sivilize" Huck, as he puts it. Although he dislikes the restraints society puts on him (i.e. stiff clothing, education, and religion), he prefers it to going back to living with his drunken father. However, his father kidnaps him and locks him up in his house. Therefore, the first major chunk of the novel focuses on the abuse Huck experiences at the hands of his father--abuse so bad that he must fake his own murder in order to escape alive.After staging his death and running away, Huck meets up with Jim, a runaway slave from the village. They decide to travel down the river together. Both of them are running away to gain their freedom: Jim from slavery, Huck from his father's abuse and the Widow Douglas's restrictive lifestyle (although Huck does not see it that way yet). For a major part of their journey together, Huck views Jim as property.Jim becomes a father figure--the first Huck ever had in his life. Jim teaches Huck right and wrong, and an emotional bond develops through the course of their journey down the river. By the last segment of the novel, Huck has learned to think like a man instead of a boy. This change is most poignantly demonstrated when we see the melodramatic prank that Tom Sawyer would have played with Jim (even though he knows that Jim is already a free man). Huck is genuinely concerned with Jim's safety and well-being, whereas Tom is only interested in having an adventure--with complete disregard for Jim's life or Huck's concern.Tom is still the same boy as the one in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but Huck has become something more. Experiences that he has shared with Jim on their journey down the river have taught him about being a man. Although Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains some very poignant critiques of slavery, discrimination, and society in general, it is also important as the story of Huck's journey from boyhood to manhood.

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a novel by Mark Twain commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist.

"A little volume in the Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series. One of the attractions in reading Mark Twain is that one never knows when he may be coming upon something serious. Though laughter rules, for the most part, now and then the jester puts aside his bells and the tragic passage comes upon one with striking force. There are seven stories in the book and the fun is at times stupendous. We recommend that it be read at seven sittings." -- Atlantic Monthly, Oct., 1892

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION! 2 stories in 1 volume. Binding tight w/no looseness; spine slightly cocked. Signatures tight; attractive sienna brown cloth binding w/gilt lettering on front & spine, & black decoration on front & spine. Frontispiece has B&W photo of Twain w/a FACSIMILE of his signature underneath. Interior pages feature delightful, uncredited, B&W sketches in margins, some labeled "Warren" and "FMS." (Sketch of wine bottle on pg. 312 appears flipped by publisher; "FMS" is backwards as is wine label.)

Shortly after his inglorious "military career" in a Confederate militia, as related in "A Private History of a Campaign That Failed," Mark Twain "lit out for the Territories" when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnecks, and assorted colorful characters as only Mark Twain could describe them.