MARK TWAIN

When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia. After two weeks of service, Clemens abandoned his post and fled westward to begin a writing career—a turn of events that precipitated the rise to fame of the man who would become known ...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones an...

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Tw...

»Ich mag Kritik, aber sie muss zu meinen Gunsten ausfallen.« Mark Twain Die schönsten, liebsten und originellsten Aphorismen und Anekdoten des größten amerikanischen Schriftstellers - boshaft, geistreich, witzig wie nie zuvor. »Wenn man bei Lärm einschläft, schlummert man friedlich weiter; sobald der Lärm jedoch aussetzt, wird man von der Stille...

This is the COMPLETE WORKS of Americas favourite storyteller Mark Twain - Lite edition. The eBook contains every novel, short story - even the very rare ones essay, travel book, non-fiction text, letter and much, much more! This Lite version has no texts missing, only images from the novels and other collections, providing a much smaller file...

Short collection of short essays, including ""What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us"" and ""A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget"". According to Wikipedia: ""Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer from the United States of America. Twain is most n...

The correspondences of Mark Twain from 1876-1885.