Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend… (more)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty.
Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.
Life On The Mississippi
by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river....
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been...
Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache
by Mark Twain
Ungeordnet und unsystematisch sei sie, schlüpfrig, ganz und gar unfassbar - jene schreckliche deutsche Sprache, über die der große Mark Twain sich in seinem gleichnamigen Essay auf ebenso spitzfindige wie...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
by Mark Twain
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented...
El príncipe y el mendigo
by Mark Twain
El príncipe y el mendigo, también traducida como Príncipe y mendigo es una novela escrita por Mark Twain. Fue publicada por primera vez en Canadá en 1881 antes de ser publicada en los Estados Unidos en 1882....
Tom Sawyer, Detective
by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve...
Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Mark Twain nous décrit, avec beaucoup de talent, les frasques et mésaventures de Tom Sawyer, jeune garçon à l'esprit vif et débordant d'imagination, élevé par sa tante, au bord du Mississipi. Tom ne loupe...
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During...
Tom Sawyer Abroad
by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa...
The Jumping Frog
by Mark Twain
Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras...
The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal...
Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer und Fahrten
by Mark Twain
Dieser Roman stellt eine Fortsetzung des 1876 erschienenen Romans Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer dar und wird häufig mit diesem in einem Band veröffentlicht. In „Tom Sawyer“ werden die Personen eingeführt...
The Million Pound Bank Note
by Mark Twain
The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry...