Regarded as the pride and joy of American literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picturesque novel depicting Huck’s epic journey from boyhood to manhood and the...

Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work...

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the real Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowdens Life of Shelley. Even though, as Twain writes, Shelleys life has...

In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is...

A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The...

What Is Man?, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of...

This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens increasing sense of...

This is Mark Twains vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Coopers literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twains essay, Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses...

A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800s - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his...