Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

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.

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.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom skips his piano lesson and goes swimming instead.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom whitewashes a fence.