This book contains both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and the sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a bildungsroman, or coming of age, novel that follows the adventures of a young boy named, Tom Sawyer, as he grows up along the Mississippi River towards the end of the nineteenth century. The setting is a fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Twain's home town of Hannibal, Missouri. The novel has become quintessential Americana. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the sequel novel to Mark Twains, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The story...

Twain's popular novel chronicles the adventures of two young boys, a Prince and a Pauper, who exchange roles and stations in life. Each boy has strong misconception's of what the other boys life is like and series of educational and entertaining adventures play out as the boys grow more comfortable in both their real and assumed roles in life. Mark Twain's Prince and the Pauper is a popular story and a classic from American Literature.

A little known short story by Mark Twain, The Stolen White Elephant, It is truly a satirical jewel propped full with Clements' wit, humor and genius. It is a detective spoof that far outdistances the fabled tales of the great Sherlock Holmes and may well have been the inspiration for Colombo. Mark Twain demonstrates his canny ability to make the unbelievable, logical and the incongruous and absurd rational and reasonable.

The wit and wisdom of Mr Twain are evident in this book. The reader may derive more pleasure from it by first dabbling in the works of Bourget. The pretense of the book is that it is a dialogue with Bourget. Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget.