Author of Audiobooks - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend...
Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Detective Fiction
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 murderer, Tom, Chambers — must be...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. But trouble is never far behind them, and their adventures are only beginning when they meet up with...
Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Those Extraordinary Twins" was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". As Twain explains, he extricated "Twins" from "Pudd'nhead" when he found, as he was writing, that...
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories - First Romance, which had originally appeared in The Express in 1870, and A...
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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 Austria during the late sixteenth...
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain"...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction / Satire
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. Twain uses this vehicle to...
The Prince and the Pauper (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure
One day a poor boy, Tom, gets a little too near the gates of the palace. and the guards start to beat him. However the prince himself intervenes and invites Tom into the palace. They talk about their differences in life and how very similar they...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2 - Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / *Non-fiction
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte is identified as Joan's page and secretary. For those who've always wanted to "get behind" the Joan of Arc story and to...
A Horse's Tale - Mark Twain
A Horse's Tale - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alison’s orphaned niece arrives and proceeds to charm every man, woman, and beast for miles around including...
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again - Mark Twain
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how Chinese immigrants were treated in...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
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 friend Jim, a runaway slave,...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A slightly more complex sequel to Mark Twain's original book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book really shows the true side of racism in quite a different light. A brilliant masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows its...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Literary Fiction
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism, childhood, and the importance of...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
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 brought up their children shielded from all temptation and trained...
The Stolen White Elephant - Mark Twain
The Stolen White Elephant - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Single Author Collections
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end. (Summary written...
The Awful German Language (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Awful German Language (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Education
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language. His examples...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the...
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will...
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are...
What is Man? and Other Essays - Mark Twain
What is Man? and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2) - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
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 Machine of 1895 (however, unlike...
The Prince and the Pauper (version 3) - Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. (wikipedia)...
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Education
If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad, this comedic gem outlines the pitfalls one will encounter when...
In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
In Defense of Harriet Shelley - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully...
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 1 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Spanning the time between 1872 and the year before he died, this collection of after-dinner speeches, random thoughts to "the press", etc. clearly documents, once again, the truly eclectic mind of Samuel Clemens. It also demonstrates how he dealt...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of “Huck” Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer’s sidekick in The...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2) - Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled "Offences") (1895), particularly criticized The...
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one of the best selling travel books of all time.” (The Writer’s Almanac, June 8, 2012) When you dive into Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens’) The Innocents...
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in this collection are works that appeared by themselves in magazines during Twain's lifetime, as well as essays...
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal...
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. Mark Twain published several collections of his short stories and essays. This collection, like the others,...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. This masterpiece by Mark Twain is a delightful mixture of exciting adventures, sad mishaps, floods, lazy days...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Satire
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 subject, in which he states: "In one place...
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
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 events as well as sad ones and is...
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the...
Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) "Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia." 2.) "The Austrian Edison keeping school again" 3.) "The Canvasser's tale." 4.) "The Czar's Soliloquy." 5.) "English as She is Taught." 6.) "Grasses in the...