An introduction to the life, times, and works of the celebrated 19th-century American author. "A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the...

Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West. A rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.

Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden Gate Bridge gone-gone!-and meeting a young man named Sam Clemens, who is on the run from a mysterious stranger. Lee and Joan wonder: Where...

Describes the boyhood of Samuel Clemens in Missouri and how he came to begin a writing career under the pen name Mark Twain.

A biography of the great American author and humorist illustrated with photographs from the period.

"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...

An illustrated biography of young Samuel Clemens, who grew up to be the writer known as Mark Twain.

A biography of the American humorist and writer whose writing greatly reflected the events of his life particularly his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.

A biography of the famous author discusses where he got the ideas for his novels, his various careers, and his personal life.

Examines the personal life and literary career of the American author of many well known books, including the somewhat controversial title, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."