Mark Twain

Beginning with the title novella, this collection of Mark Twain's singular combination of caustic wit about and sentimental concern for his fellow human beings. The collection includes short stories, satires, fables, letters, travelogues, burlesques, and the many 'opinion' pieces at which Twain excelled.

This eBook features the unabridged text of 'Mark Twain's Library of Humor' from the bestselling edition of 'The Complete Works of Mark Twain'.

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"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as "The Gilded Age" because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives; one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the government...

In the last book published during Mark Twain's lifetime, the spirit of a deceased ship captain takes a voyage to Heaven, and learns many interesting things about the Afterlife.

Adam and Eve examine the humorous relationship between men and women by presenting their "diary entries" from their stay in the Garden of Eden and their life together outside the Garden.

Autobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his life, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is a series of brief reflections on 74 years of fame, hard work, and adventure by an icon of American literature. Originally serialized in the North American Review, the United States' oldest literary magazine, the Autobiography of Mark Twain has gone through countless...

If I were to sell the reader a barrel of molasses, and he, instead of sweetening his substantial dinner with the same at judicious intervals, should eat the entire barrel at one sitting, and then abuse me for making him sick, I would say that he deserved to be made sick for not knowing any better how to utilize the blessings this world affords. And if I sell to the reader this volume of nonsense, and he, instead of seasoning his graver reading with...

Here, for the first time in book form, are 24 remarkable pieces by the American master -- pieces that have been handpicked by Robert Hirst, general director of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

At the heart of this collection of seven stories is the masterful tale "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Part autobiographical account of Twain's adventures in the Civil War and part fiction, the story is by turns brimming with satire and a sober indictment of the cruel realities of war. Also included are "A Curious Experience," the account of a boy whose fantasy world collides with the real world during war time, and "The Invalid's...

Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her light-skinned baby for her master's.