Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finns äventyr originaltitel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn är en amerikansk bildningsroman och pikareskbok, en äventyrsroman och satir av Mark Twain. Boken gavs ursprungligen ut 1884 och är en klassiker. Den är en fristående fortsättning på Tom Sawyers äventyr. Mark Twain började skriva på den 1876, …

Tom Sawyers äventyr är en roman av Mark Twain från år 1876. Boken filmatiserades år 1930. Boken handlar om den unge och frimodige pojken Tom Sawyer. Efter att mamman avlidit, bor han hos sin moster, tant Polly, i den lilla byn St. Petersburg i Missouri vid Mississippifloden. Han är mindre intresserad av de …

En yankee vid kung Arthurs hov är en roman av Mark Twain som utgavs 1889. Berättelsen är en satirisk science fiction-roman som skapades av Mark Twain för att driva med samtidens riddarromantik. Kapitel 13 censurerades från den svenska översättningen. Citat ur detta finns på Wikiquote.

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 …