Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of the most exciting of literary lives. Raised in the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age 12 and was successively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted Confederate soldier, and a prospector, miner, and reporter in the western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local customs and speech which manifests itself in his writing.
With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Children's Classics | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-09-957368-5 (0-09-957368-7)
October 15, 2012 | $10.95
Written by Mark Twain
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Children's Classics | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-09-957368-5 (0-09-957368-7)
October 15, 2012 | $10.95
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Children's Classics | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-09-957297-8 (0-09-957297-4)
September 10, 2012 | $10.95
Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn!
Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap...
Written by Mark Twain
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Children's Classics | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-09-957297-8 (0-09-957297-4)
September 10, 2012 | $10.95
Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn!
Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap...
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The Complete Short Stories
Hardcover | 744 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Humorous
978-0-307-95937-9 (0-307-95937-6)
June 5, 2012 | $34.00
Hardcover | 744 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Humorous
978-0-307-95937-9 (0-307-95937-6)
June 5, 2012 | $34.00
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These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author’s death.
Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also...
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
eBook | 288 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-76980-0 (0-307-76980-1)
April 13, 2011 | $9.99
Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master’s baby, and the clever Pudd’nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain’s darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as “half melodramatic...
eBook | 288 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-76980-0 (0-307-76980-1)
April 13, 2011 | $9.99
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Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master’s baby, and the clever Pudd’nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain’s darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as “half melodramatic...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
eBook | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-78405-6 (0-307-78405-3)
February 23, 2011 | $9.99
As part of the wonderful Collector's Library series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with 8 full color illustrations, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The deluxe edition features a full piece...
Written by Mark Twain
eBook | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-78405-6 (0-307-78405-3)
February 23, 2011 | $9.99
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As part of the wonderful Collector's Library series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with 8 full color illustrations, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The deluxe edition features a full piece...
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American 19th Century Literature
Hardcover | pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-70083-4 (0-307-70083-6)
December 21, 2010 | $145.90
An extraordinary collection that features some of the most beloved stories in early American literature, ranging from tales of love and longing to those of personal transformation. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library.
Titles included:
The Age of...
Hardcover | pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-70083-4 (0-307-70083-6)
December 21, 2010 | $145.90
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An extraordinary collection that features some of the most beloved stories in early American literature, ranging from tales of love and longing to those of personal transformation. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library.
Titles included:
The Age of...
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
eBook | 608 pages | Modern Library | Humor; Literary Criticism - Humor; Humor - Essays
978-0-307-76542-0 (0-307-76542-3)
October 27, 2010 | $13.99
Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires...
eBook | 608 pages | Modern Library | Humor; Literary Criticism - Humor; Humor - Essays
978-0-307-76542-0 (0-307-76542-3)
October 27, 2010 | $13.99
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Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-954089-2 (0-09-954089-4)
May 3, 2010 | $19.95
The classic boy-hero of American literature.
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Mississippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at...
Written by Mark Twain
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-954089-2 (0-09-954089-4)
May 3, 2010 | $19.95
The classic boy-hero of American literature.
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Mississippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-47556-5 (0-307-47556-5)
April 6, 2010 | $12.00
Long cherished by readers of all ages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.
The mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel both its colorful backdrop and its narrative...
Written by Mark Twain
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-47556-5 (0-307-47556-5)
April 6, 2010 | $12.00
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Long cherished by readers of all ages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.
The mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel both its colorful backdrop and its narrative...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-47555-8 (0-307-47555-7)
April 6, 2010 | $12.00
Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy.
Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous...
Written by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy.
Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous...
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Four Great American Classics
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90510-6 (0-553-90510-4)
May 20, 2008 | $9.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical...
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90510-6 (0-553-90510-4)
May 20, 2008 | $9.99
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These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-951111-3 (0-09-951111-8)
January 8, 2008 | $18.95
Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn!
Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap...
Written by Mark Twain
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-951111-3 (0-09-951111-8)
January 8, 2008 | $18.95
Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn!
Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap...
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
eBook | 400 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43198-1 (0-307-43198-3)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation...
eBook | 400 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43198-1 (0-307-43198-3)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation...
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The Gilded Age
eBook | 528 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43226-1 (0-307-43226-2)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
Introduction by Ron Powers
Includes Newly Commissioned Endnotes
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-written by Mark Twain...
eBook | 528 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43226-1 (0-307-43226-2)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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Introduction by Ron Powers
Includes Newly Commissioned Endnotes
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-written by Mark Twain...
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The Innocents Abroad
eBook | 560 pages | Modern Library | Travel
978-0-307-43231-5 (0-307-43231-9)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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...
eBook | 560 pages | Modern Library | Travel
978-0-307-43231-5 (0-307-43231-9)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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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...
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