Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. In this 19th century satire a New England factory worker is knocked unconscious and is transported back in time to the year 528. Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. Morgan uses his native ingenuity to confound the entire court. The shortcomings of the age of chivalry are demonstrated in this burlesque novel.

This book contains Mark Twain s 1881 novel, "The Prince and the Pauper." It constitutes Twain s first serious attempt at historical fiction, and is highly recommended for those with a love of such literature. Set in 1547, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the tale of two boys of uncanny physical similarity: Tom Canty, a poor son of an abusive father living on Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, whose father is King Henry VIII. A masterfully-written and thoroughly entertaining novel, "The Prince and The Pauper" would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Samuel Langhorne Clemens...

This antiquarian volume contains Mark Twain s 1876 novel, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." It tells the story of a young boy who grows up on the Mississippi River. Whether creating a band of pirates and searching for buried treasure or occupying himself happily at home, Tom Sawyer is evocative a well-spent youth in nineteenth century rural America. This classic text would make for a great addition to any bookshelf, and constitutes a must-have for fans and collectors of Twain s seminal work. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910) better known by his pseudonym, Mark Twain, was an esteemed...

This vintage book contains Mark Twain s 1894 novel, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Set in a fictional Missouri town called 'Dawson's Landing', the novel centres around Roxy, a slave who, to prevent her son having to live a life of servitude, switches him for her master s son of the same age. "Pudd'nhead Wilson" was originally serialised in 'The Century Magazine' (1893), and was later published as a novel. This enthralling and thought-provoking work is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other texts by Mark Twain. It would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Samuel Langhorne...

The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed to be far above the stars. The professor had himself invented the flying machine, and had also invented nearly everything in it. Every sort of tool or apparatus had, in consequence, to the full, that fantastic and distorted look which belongs to the miracles of science. For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and...

THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea. It must not be supposed that Dr Hoods apartments excluded luxury, or even poetry. These things were there, in their...

This book contains a wonderful collection of some of Mark Twain's finest writings, including: [1601 [ In Defence of Harriet Shelley [ Is Shakespeare Dead? [ How to Tell a Story [ Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

This book contains a wonderful collection of some of Mark Twain's finest writings, including: [1601 [ In Defence of Harriet Shelley [ Is Shakespeare Dead? [ How to Tell a Story [ Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again