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)

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,...

Uit de inleiding van de schrijver bij de originele Engelstalige uitgave (helaas niet in deze vertaling opgenomen): Ofschoon mijn boek hoofdzakelijk bedoeld is voor het plezier van...

If ever there was a story written based unabashedly on adventure and trouble, this is it.There are treasure hunts and murderers on the run in this book that will keep you...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twains lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is...

The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took this reputation so to heart that they...

The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twains first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in...

It was published in 18931894 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...

Regarded as the pride and joy of American literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picturesque novel depicting Huck’s epic journey from boyhood to manhood and the...

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...