Mark Twain

82 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Children's Fiction

543

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his...

Ted Kaouk and 16 more 11 hours 20 minutes

No comments

Family Life

553

Mark Twain - Dog's Tale

This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy...

Aaron Elliott 29 minutes

No comments

Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)

Detective Fiction

553

Mark Twain - Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)

It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identities — the judge's...

John Greenman 5 hours 24 minutes

No comments

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

481

Mark Twain - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time...

John Greenman 11 hours 49 minutes

No comments

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

556

Mark Twain - Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep impression. It concerns the deeply religious residents of a small village in...

Ted Delorme 4 hours 33 minutes

No comments

Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

Humorous Fiction

470

Mark Twain - Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man...

John Greenman 13 hours 4 minutes

No comments

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Humorous Fiction

491

Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

«Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven» is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental...

Kevin LaVergne 1 hour 28 minutes

No comments

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

Action & Adventure

480

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's — afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his...

Mark F. Smith 11 hours 33 minutes

No comments

Humorous Fiction

502

Mark Twain - Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is condemned to live the life of a slave....

Michael Yard 7 hours 6 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

526

Mark Twain - Roughing It

Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of...

John Greenman 16 hours 57 minutes

No comments

Nature

493

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)

John Greenman 14 hours 53 minutes

No comments

Satire

530

Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper — author of The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , etc — has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious little essay on the...

32 minutes

No comments

New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

Show all