Mark Twain

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 …

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 …

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 Prince and the Pauper é um livro de 1881 do escritor norte-americano Mark Twain e foi inspirado pela sua viagem à Europa.

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 …

"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 …

Escrita em 1876 a obra além de ser uma re-constituição da infância do autor é também uma resposta aos livros moralistas e açucarados da época. Tornou-se um clássico da literatura juve-nil mundial. Seus principais personagens saíram das pessoas simples e rudes do interior cuja vida até então nunca tinham entrado nos …

As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn é o título em língua portuguesa de um romance do escritor norte-americano Mark Twain, publicado em 1884. Nele, o protagonista, amigo de Tom Sawyer, vive inúmeras aventuras pelo rio Mississippi em uma balsa. Nos Estados Unidos, muitos consideram o livro como um livro racista porque o …