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Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.

Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'

Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.

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Mark Twain: The Complete Novels Jun 29, 2022

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Here you will find the complete novels of Mark Twain in the chronological order of their original publication:

- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The American Claimant
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story
- A Horse's Tale
- The Mysterious Stranger

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Life On The Mississippi Jun 26, 2022

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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River. In the second half, the book describes Twain's return, many years later, to travel on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, the new, large cities, and his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the U.S. and in England, it is said to be the first book composed on a typewriter. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Jun 27, 2022

by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the ‘sivilizing’ Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous ‘Duke’ and ‘Daupin’. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents — of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck’s struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring frienship with Jim.

All modern American literature comes from… “Huckleberry Finn”. It’s the best book we’ve had. —Ernest Hemingway
Probably the most stupendous event of my whole life. —Henry Louis Mencken
[Huck is] one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet… —T. S. Eliot
The mark of how good ‘Huckleberry Finn’ has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page, awkward here, sensational there — absolutely the equal of one of those rare incredible first novels that come along once or twice in a decade. —Norman Mailer
The first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs. —William Faulkner

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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2] Jun 29, 2022

by Oscar Wilde, Rebecca West, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upton Sinclair, Walter Scott, William Somerset Maugham, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Rabindranath Tagore, Stendhal, Mark Twain, James Joyce, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling

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This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:

Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow
Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly
Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk
Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
London, Jack: The Call of the Wild
Lovecraft, H.P.: At the Mountains of Madness
Mann, Thomas: Royal Highness
Maugham, William Somerset: Of Human Bondage
Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher
Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way
Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa
Sand, George: The Devil’s Pool
Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis
Sinclair, May: Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle
Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Wallace, Lew: Ben-Hur
Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine
West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Xueqin, Cao: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Zola, Émile: Germinal

Classic Authors Super Set Series 1: Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, , H.P Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard... May 8, 2018

by Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Zane Grey, Robert E. Howard, H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe

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Contents:

- Jane Austen: The Complete Novels
- Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels
- Zane Grey: The Collected Works
- Robert E. Howard: The Collected Works
- H.P Lovecraft: The Complete Fictions
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and poems
- Mark Twain: The Complete Novels

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Original Illustrations Oct 30, 2020

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Pudd'nhead Wilson Dec 22, 2015

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A Southern town scandalized by the murder of its most prominent citizen uncovers a mystery even more shocking in this ironic suspense story from a great American master

Afraid for her infant son’s life, a slave switches the boy with her master’s child. A young New York lawyer fascinated by palmistry and fingerprint analysis moves below the Mason–Dixon line, makes a bad joke, and is immediately and forever branded a “pudd’nhead.” Two Italian noblemen pay a visit to Dawson’s Landing, Missouri, and become prime suspects in the murder of a local judge.

From these disparate plot strands, Mark Twain fashions a humorous and entertaining tale with all the elements of the traditional murder mystery: a case of mistaken identity, a gruesome crime, a sinister villain, an eccentric detective, a climactic courtroom showdown, and an ingenious solution. But beneath this potboiler’s pomp and circumstance lurks a clear-eyed and savagely compelling indictment of slavery and its poisonous effects on American society.

Twain’s last novel set in the antebellum South, Pudd’nhead Wilson offers his clearest and most provocative condemnation of racial prejudice.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (AmazonClassics Edition) Jun 13, 2017

by Mark Twain

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Whether he’s sneaking doughnuts, mooning over a pretty girl, or snookering the local boys to do his work for him, Tom Sawyer is the consummate schemer—but his charm and easygoing nature keep him from being in anyone’s bad graces for long. However, when Tom teams up with his friend Huck Finn, their sleepy Missouri town had better watch out.

Based on Mark Twain’s memories of growing up along the Mississippi River, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is both an idyllic picture of boyhood and an affectionate satire of adult conventions.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Unabridged and Uncensored Edition Nov 5, 2021

by Mark Twain

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Unabridged and uncensored edition of the classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with original illustrations. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book which has received global critically acclamation and quoted as the source of all modern literature by the prodigious Ernest Hemingway.

This original version of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is raw, containing coarse language and racial slurs throughout as it is set in the state of Mississippi in the 1840’s. Our protagonist (Huckleberry Finn) travels down the Mississippi with a slave named Jim, a man seeking his freedom. The book follows their journey as they encounter con men, royalty and eventually the famous friend of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer.

Mark Twain is the alias of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910) born and raised Missouri. Mark Twain drew inspiration from his childhood when he wrote and published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876 which led to the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884 following the success of the Tom Sawyer book.

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Author name: Mark Twain
Author date of death: 1910
Initial publication date: 1884
Initial publication country: USA

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50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 (2021 Edition) Nov 13, 2020

by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P lovecreaft, Shandon Press, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, J.M. Barrie, B. M. Bower, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert William Chambers, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Darwin, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Deland, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Andrew Lang, Jack London, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Strunk Jr., Vatsyayana, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf

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This book contains the works below arranged alphabetically by authors last names

1. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
2. Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
3. Cabin Fever (B. M. Bower)
4. Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)
5. Father Gorio (Honoré de Balzac)
6. The Inferno (Henri Barbusse)
7. Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
8. The King in Yellow (Robert William Chambers)
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much (G.K Chesterton)
10. The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie)
11. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
12. The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell)
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
14. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
15. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
16. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
17. The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
18. The Enormous Room (E. Cummings)
19. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
20. Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
21. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
22. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
23. The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
24. Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
25. The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
26. The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)
27. A Room with a View (E.M.Forster)
28. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
29. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
30. A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
31. The Sea-Wolf (Jack London)
32. The Call of Cthulhu (H.P Lovecraft)
33. Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
34. The Murders In The Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
35. The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
36. The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
37. Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
38. Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
39. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
40. The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr.)
41. The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
42. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
43. The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
44. The Kama Sutra (Vatsyayana)
45. A Journey into the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
46. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
47. The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne)
48. The Time Machine (H.G Wells)
49. The Invisible Man (H.G Wells)
50. The First Men in the Moon (H.G Wells)

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Roughing It Apr 22, 2014

by Mark Twain

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The Wild West as Mark Twain lived it

In 1861, Mark Twain joined his older brother Orion, the newly appointed secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey from Missouri to Carson City, Nevada. Planning to be gone for three months, Twain spent the next “six or seven years” exploring the great American frontier, from the monumental vistas of the Rocky Mountains to the lush landscapes of Hawaii. Along the way, he made and lost a theoretical fortune, danced like a kangaroo in the finest hotels of San Francisco, and came to terms with freezing to death in a snow bank—only to discover, in the light of morning, that he was fifteen steps from a comfortable inn.

As a record of the “variegated vagabondizing” that characterized his early years—before he became a national treasure—Roughing It is an indispensable chapter in the biography of Mark Twain. It is also, a century and a half after it was first published, both a fascinating history of the American West and a laugh-out-loud good time.

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WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaw Classics, Gold Rush Adventures & ... The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail…) Jul 30, 2017

by Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Jack London, O. Henry, James Oliver Curwood, Emerson Hough, Willa Cather, Andy Adams, Charles Alden Seltzer, Jackson Gregory, Washington Irving, R.M. Ballantyne, Frank H. Spearman, Charles Siringo, Stephen Crane, Grace Livingston Hill, Robert W. Chambers, Frederic Remington, Frederic Homer Balch, Will Lillibridge, Dane Coolidge, Francis William Sullivan, Marah Ellis Ryan, Forrestine C. Hooker, Charles King, Ann S. Stephens, Isabel E. Ostrander

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This collection of world's greatest western novels and stories include rip roarin' cowboy adventures, tales of the famous outcasts, the heroes of the Wild West, conniving villains and intriguing sagas:
Introduction
Story of the Cowboy
Story of the Outlaw
Novels & Stories
Riders of the Purple Sage Saga (Zane Grey)
Ohio River Trilogy
Dan Barry Series (Max Brand)
The Virginian (Owen Wister)
Lin McLean
Leatherstocking Series (James F. Cooper)
Flying U Series (B. M. Bower)
Cabin Fever
Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn)
Breckinridge Elkins Series (Robert E. Howard)
In a Hollow of the Hills (Bret Harte)
Roughing It (Mark Twain)
Outcasts of Poker Flat
Call of the Wild (Jack London)
Heart of the West (O. Henry)
White Fang
Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood)
Gold Hunters
Last of the Plainsmen
Border Legion
Smoke Bellew
Country Beyond
Lone Star Ranger
Ronicky Doone Trilogy
Riders of the Silences
Three Partners
Man of the Forest
Lure of the Dim Trails
Tennessee's Partner
Covered Wagon (Emerson Hough)
Luck of Roaring Camp
Rustlers of Pecos County
Pike Bearfield Series
O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)
My Ántonia
Log of a Cowboy (Andy Adams)
Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer)
Short Cut (Jackson Gregory)
Astoria (Washington Irving)
Ungava (R.M. Ballantyne)
Valley of Silent Men
Black Jack
Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman)
A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo)
Trail Horde
Golden Dream (Ballantyne)
Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane)
Long Shadow
Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill)
Hidden Children (Robert W. Chambers)
Where the Trail Divides
Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge)
Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Hidden Water…

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