The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy. Characters Colonel Mulberry Sellers: An eccentric white-headed old man who becomes the rightful heir to the Earl of Rossmore after the death of his relative, Simon Lathers. According to his wife, Sellers is a "scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure" who is well beloved for his generosity and approachability. Although many of his eccentric...

Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, United States, and died April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut, is a writer, And American humorist. After a career as a military officer, a printer and a journalist with miners in Nevada, he became known through his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and his sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A child of the Border Mark Twain comes from a long-established family on the American continent, whose trajectory has married the pioneer front drawn by settlers. Twain's childhood...

Extract: I. All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend said he would go, too; a good man, one of the best of men, although a clergyman. By eleven at night we were in New Haven and on board the New York boat. We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. After a while I went to my stateroom...

Summary In a small city on the banks of the Mississippi comes a young lawyer from New York, David Wilson, soon nicknamed the pudd'nhead for wanting to kill half a dog not belonging to him Moreover his favorite pastime is to collect the fingerprints of the passers-by. His fame is made ... At the same time, Roxana, a young Metis slave (one-sixteenth of black blood) raised and fed two blondinet boys, his and his master, Percy Driscoll, brother of the county court judge. To avoid the sale of her son in a plantation, she substitutes the two infants. The fake Tom should make a great career ......

The Mysterious Stranger is the novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. 44." All the versions remained unfinished (with the debatable exception of the last one, No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger). Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, United States, and died April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut, is a writer, And American humorist. After a career as a military...

Christian Science is a 1907 book by the American writer Mark Twain (1835-1910). The book is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910).

This article is about Mark Twain's fictional republic. For the kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, see Gondor. Gondour is a fictitious republic created by Mark Twain in his short story "The Curious Republic of Gondour," and popularized by Robert A. Heinlein and his heirs. Twain proposed a state in which all citizens have at least one vote, but where further votes (up to a dozen) could be acquired through education, which was provided by the state for free, or by relative wealth. Furthermore, no one was accepted to any public office without passing strenuous competitive...

1.) Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by Mark Twain. It was serialized in The Century Magazine (1893-4), before being published as a novel in 1894 The setting is the fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first hal of the 19th century. 2.)The Mysterious Stranger is the novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story 3.)Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy...

After having come into a considerable sum of money Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer are bound on causing all kinds of trouble when Huck's alcoholic father comes to town and kidnaps Huck Finn. Having to fake his own death to escape his father's imprisoning, Huck unites with another friend Jim, who is an run away slave who was afraid of getting sold to more brutal owners farther down the Mississippi River. Travelling together the two are set on a series of adventures that will leave anyone wanting to go out on a raft on some river and dreaming of what can happen.

When Tom skips school and is forced to whitewash a fence as punishment and he thinks to trade this type of work and he asks his friends to trade his services for trinkets they earn in Sunday school which he uses to gain a Bible. During this time he falls in love with Becky and she shuns him when she learns of his romantic history. When he reunites with Huckleberry Finn, they take off to an island where they learn that some rare treasure is hidden and they go looking for it.