"On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis" a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour...
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda.
Bringing together 38 tales and sketches, "The 30 000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories" provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career, from "Advice to Young Girls" (a...
"The American Claimant" is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches―fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British...
"What is Man?" was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages....
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work...
"Tom Sawyeri seiklused" kirjeldab Mississippi kaldal asuva unise väikelinna St. Petersburgi idülli, mille Tom Sawyer oma sõpradega põhjalikult pea peale pöörab. "Huckleberry Finni seiklusi" peetakse...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat.
Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young...