Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was a funny man. He was also a thoughtful man and very often a frustrated one, especially as he aged. Twain's humor, insight and frustration found regular expression in politics and its players. It would not be an exaggeration to suggest America's finest humorist despised the Machiavellian tendencies and lack of integrity which politicians of all parties displayed.
He despairingly wrote:
"Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a Congressman.
But I'm repeating myself"
and suggested the only native American criminal class was Congress...

Las Aventuras de Tom Sawyer de Mark Twain es una novela de 1876 que relata las ocurrencias de la infancia de Tom Sawyer, un nino que vive a las orillas del rio Mississippi en el sur de Estados Unidos. La historia esta ambientada en la ficticia ciudad de San Petersburgo, que esta inspirada en Hannibal, Missouri, donde vivia el autor de la novela. Tom Sawyer vive con su tia Polly y su medio hermano Sid. En una pelea callejera, Tom ensucia su ropa y es obligado a pintar la valla al dia siguiente como castigo. Tom habilmente convence a sus amigos para canjearle pequenos tesoros por el privilegio...

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, obra de Mark Twain, representa una de las primeras grandes novelas estadounidenses. Tambien fue una de las primeras novelas escritas en ingles, el hablado por el narrador y protagonista principal de la historia, Huckleberry Finn, el mejor amigo de Tom Sawyer. La obra se publico por primera vez en Inglaterra en 1885. La primera edicion estadounidense del libro se publico el 18 de febrero de 1885. La historia se desarrolla a lo largo del rio Misisipi, el cual recorren Huck y el esclavo profugo Jim, huyendo del pasado que han sufrido con el proposito de llegar...

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 appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a...

Principe y Mendigo es la primera novela historica de Twain. Ambientada en 1547, cuenta la historia de dos ninos de apariencia fisica identica: Tom Canty, un mendigo que vive con su padre cruel en Offal Court, Londres, y el principe Eduardo, hijo de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra. Publicada en 1882, la obra es una novela costumbrista bien documentada historicamente que, al mismo tiempo que alimentaba la curiosidad de la epoca por la Inglaterra monarquica, afirmaba la superioridad de los ideales democraticos."

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles.

Twain's sequel to his classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Priklyucheniya Gekl'berri Finna - vtoroy roman Marka Tvena o mal'chishkakh, prodolzhenie romana Priklyucheniya Toma Soyera. Kniga znamenita yarkimi opisaniyami zhizni naroda i mestechek vdol' po techeniyu reki Missisipi. Povestvovanie vedetsya ot litsa Geka Finna, druga Toma Soyera. Deystvie proiskhodit do sobytiy Grazhdanskoy voyny v SShA mezhdu shtatami Severa i Yuga, to est' do 1861 goda, i ono ispolneno edkoy satiry na ukorenivshiesya predrassudki, v chastnosti na rasizm. Gek Finn - mal'chik primerno dvenadtsati let, s rozhdeniya vospitan ottsom, gorodskim p'yanitsey, i s trudom sposoben...

Priklyucheniya Toma Soyera - roman Marka Tvena o priklyucheniyakh mal'chika, rastushchego v vymyshlennom nebol'shom amerikanskom gorodke v shtate Missuri. Deystvie romana proiskhodit do sobytiy Grazhdanskoy voyny v SShA mezhdu shtatami Severa i Yuga, to est' do 1861 goda. Tom Soyer - mal'chik primerno desyatiletnego vozrasta, zhivet u teti Polli, sestry svoey pokoynoy materi. Yavlyaetsya predvoditelem gorodskikh mal'chishek v ikh razvlecheniyakh. Luchshiy drachun i samyy nakhodchivyy mal'chik v gorode. V romane opisyvayutsya razlichnye priklyucheniya Toma i ego druzey na protyazhenii...