A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom. "The text of this new scholarly edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the first ever to be based on Mark Twain's complete, original manuscript -- including its first 665 pages, half the book, which had been lost for over a hundred...

Revised ed. of author's Sketches new and old.Includes previously unpublished Learned fables for good old boys and girls, Jumping frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the French, and others. Cf. Author's pref.Source: Gift of Frances R. Friedman, June 15, 1992.

The first work is the story of Roxana, a light-skinned slave who switches her baby with her master's.

"Mark Twain is Mark Twain and reading these classic authors is always worthwhile. If his books were bread after all these years well it would still be fresh and fragrant as fresh from the oven, so perfect is his style. This representation of the afterlife is also quite modern since not only are infinite worlds saved by Our Lord imagined, but that the Earth is nothing but a trifle compared to the vastness of the firmament and that in Heaven they have...

An account of Twain's experiences as an apprentice riverboat pilot in the days of the great Mississippi steamboats. Both a memoir and a travel book, Mark Twain recalls his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and then many years after, recounts a trip as passenger along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans,...

This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...

In this book, the Mark Twain tells of his escapades in the American West and the Sandwich Islands. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," his story is informative as well as humorous.

The Prince of Wales and a poor boy trade places.