Mark Twain

A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.

Contents: Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Story of the Bad Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, Day at Niagara, Legend of the Capitoline Venus, Journalism in Tennessee and much more.

Huck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi from one adventure to the next. Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, they have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river's banks, they witness decisive...

Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.

Two humorous novels by Mark Twain in one volume.

Two classic short stories by Twain; one about the jumping frog that was fed buckshot as a contest handicap, the second about a man who vowed to get even with a town that had mistreated him.