Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn er en roman fra 1884 av Mark Twain og regnes som hans store mesterverk. Romanen handler for det meste om Huckleberry Finn og den rømte negerslaven Jims reise nedover Mississippi i tiden før den amerikanske borgerkrigen. Romanen har blitt kalt «den store amerikanske romanen», «den amerikanske Odysseen» …

Tom Sawyer er en roman fra 1876 av den amerikanske forfatteren Mark Twain. Den handler om gutten Tom Sawyer og om barndom og livet ved elven Mississippi på midten av 1800-tallet. Twain skrev oppfølgeren Huckleberry Finn åtte år senere; her er bipersonen Huckleberry Finn forfremmet til hovedperson.

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Mark Twain's classic tale of Hank Morgan, a resident of 19th century Hartford Connecticut who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. A classic satire, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" pokes fun at the romanticized notions …

Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American …

Originally written for children and first published in 1881, Twain's delightful satire of England's past will amuse listeners young and old alike. The Prince and the Pauper relates the hilarious adventures of Tom Canty, a ragged street urchin who bears a striking resemblance to Edward VI, son of Henry VIII. Longing to …

Den tvilsomme tvilling, er en roman av den amerikanske forfatteren Mark Twain der handlingen er lagt til slavetiden før den amerikanske borgerkrigen i byen Dawson ved Mississippi. Romanen er en av Twains mer komplekse romaner fra hans mørke tid og er bygget opp som en detektiv-roman.

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully …

Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of celebrated American author Mark Twain. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life, when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. The content concerns morality and religion and strikes a sarcastic — …

A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer... Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous …

MARK TWAIN, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family, and brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After his father´s death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer, and wrote for his brother´s newspaper. Between 1857 and 1861, he was a pilot on the Mississippi. From …