This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains The Jumping Frog in the original English, followed by a French translation...

Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny,...

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)

A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock...

Uit de inleiding van de schrijver bij de originele Engelstalige uitgave (helaas niet in deze vertaling opgenomen): Ofschoon mijn boek hoofdzakelijk bedoeld is voor het plezier van...

If ever there was a story written based unabashedly on adventure and trouble, this is it.There are treasure hunts and murderers on the run in this book that will keep you...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twains lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is...

The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took this reputation so to heart that they...

The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twains first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in...

It was published in 18931894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a...