Mark Twain

Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn és una novel·la de Mark Twain, la primera edició de la qual es publicà el Febrer de 1885. Concebuda com la continuació de Les aventures de Tom Sawyer, és considerada una de les Grans Novel·les Americanes i també l'obra mestra de Twain. El llibre és una sàtira a l'esclavisme de negres …

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer és una novel·la de l'escriptor nord-americà Mark Twain publicada el 1876. El llibre relata uns mesos en la vida d'aquest nen que viu en una ciutat petita prop del riu Mississipí, criat per la seva tia Polly, que se l'estima molt però que a la vegada és estricta. Tom contempla el món d'una …

Un ianqui a la cort del Rei Artús és una novel·la de Mark Twain, publicada el 1889. La novel·la explica la història de Hank Morgan, un ciutadà de Connecticut del segle XIX que inexplicablement es desperta a l'Anglaterra de l'alta edat mitjana, en temps del llegendari Rei Artús. Aprofitant els seus coneixements, el …

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 …

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements …

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 …