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At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young female slave, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's, leading to a novel whose plot rages as a savage indictment of racial prejudice and slavery. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson is full of characteristic Twain humor and stands as a gem among the author's later works.

In Tom Sawyer, Detective, Tom attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this satirical take on the immensely popular detective novels of the 1800s. Like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told in the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, who is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th century industrial inventions.

Mark Twain calls on Dennis McCarthy, editor of the San Francisco journal, The Irish People. He has some difficulties with the language. Mark Twain was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882). In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'.

What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain, is about animals' ability to speak, converse, and act like humans—mainly the blue jays. The blue jays, as Mark Twain claims, are like humans: they can speak, out-swear miners, have good grammar, and have a good sense of humor.

A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco is a short story by Mark Twain, one of the most funny and beloved American authors of all time. In it, Mark Twain complains about the letters he gets from friends and relatives. Letters which hold not a word of anyone he cares about or anything that would interest him, but instead are filled with nothing but utterly boring drivel, telling him about people he's never heard of before, and things he knows nothing at all about and cares less.

This book includes two wonderful novels The Adventures of Tom Sawer Adventures (1876)  and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by (1885) a famous American writer Mark Twain. Tom adores adventures, he runs away from home in order to become a pirate and to live on an island; he wanders in a mysterious cave, finds treasure and shares it with his friend Huckleberry Finn. But Huck as well is a big fan of adventures about which he tells himself in the second book by Mark Twain.

Curing a Cold was written in response to a serious cold followed by bronchitis that Twain suffered through the summer of 1863 – during the American Civil War, in fact, though you wouldn't really know it from the story. He wrote several letters and reports detailing his experiences to newspaper editors in Virginia City (Nevada) and San Francisco, but didn't write this dedicated piece until he arrived in San Francisco in September of that year.

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 century, and what happened to several of them when a strange man began to visit their insulated homeland. There's little of Twain's humor here; this is a horror story, a parable. . . and a warning.

It's an opportunity not just to listen to a classic work, but to embark on a journey through the life, influences, and enduring impact of one of America's literary giants.

Wenn ein Mark Twain auf Reisen geht, dann ist nicht jedem vergönnt, dabei sein zu dürfen – uns schon! Ernest Hemingways berühmtes Zitat "Es gibt eine amerikanische Literatur vor Mark Twain und eine danach, denn nichts was davor da war noch etwas was danach kommt ist damit vergleichbar" wird durch die Unterwegs und Daheim-Reihe wunderbar bestätigt. Ob auf Berggipfeln oder vor Ameisenhaufen, ob auf stürmischer See oder am Karpfenteich, ob im fünf- Sterne-Hotel oder in der Jugendherberge, ob auf Kontinent A, B, C, D, oder E, ob in Gesellschaft oder allein, ob mit Bahn, Bus, Gondel, Ski oder Schwimmhose "on the road".

Wenn ein Mark Twain auf Reisen geht, dann ist nicht jedem vergönnt, dabei sein zu dürfen – uns schon! Ernest Hemingways berühmtes Zitat "Es gibt eine amerikanische Literatur vor Mark Twain und eine danach, denn nichts was davor da war noch etwas was danach kommt ist damit vergleichbar" wird durch die Unterwegs und Daheim-Reihe wunderbar bestätigt. Ob auf Berggipfeln oder vor Ameisenhaufen, ob auf stürmischer See oder am Karpfenteich, ob im fünf- Sterne-Hotel oder in der Jugendherberge, ob auf Kontinent A, B, C, D, oder E, ob in Gesellschaft oder allein, ob mit Bahn, Bus, Gondel, Ski oder Schwimmhose "on the road".

Die exzentrischen Millionäre Oliver und Roderick Montpelier wetten um den Einfluss einer einzigartigen Geldnote über eine Millionen britische Pfund auf das Leben eines mittellosen Menschen. Ihre Versuchsperson ist Henry Adams. Für einen Monat darf er den Geldschein weder ausgeben noch wechseln. Doch allein durch das Vorzeigen der Geldnote bekommt Adams den Ruf eines bedeutenden amerikanischen Millionärs. Ihm öffnen sich alle Türen. Im Hinblick auf künftige Geschäfte sind alle Geschäftsleute gerne bereit, ihm großzügig Kredit einzuräumen.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime. Tom Sawyer, an orphan, lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri sometime in the 1840s.

This is a rare non-fiction autobiographical story by Mark Twain in which he talks about his early days of riding on a steamboat throughout the Mississippi River. His experiences on this river would later help him write his famous fictional stories including the characters of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain begibt sich auf Weltreise und uns wird das Vergnügen gewährt, mitkommen zu dürfen. In der Ersten Abteilung bilden Australien, Neuseeland, die ozeanischen Inseln und Indien die Kulisse für eine Weltreise der besonderen Art. In spielerischer Leichtigkeit verknüpft Twain historisches Wissen über Länder und Ethnien, naturwissenschaftliche Begebenheiten und Unglaubliches der Tier- und Pflanzenwelt, Besonderheiten regionaler Extravaganzen mit Legenden lokaler Helden und Anekdoten über außergewöhnliche Ereignisse und Personen, die ihm widerfahren bzw. welchen er begegnet.

Mark Twain bereiste mehrmals Europa und ließ es sich dabei nicht nehmen deutschsprachige Landen, welche starke Impressionen bei ihm hinterließen, zu besuchen. Die Reflexionen darüber hat er charmant und höchst amüsant literarisch aufgearbeitet: „Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache“ verdeutlichen wieso englische Muttersprachler beim Versuch des Erlernens anderer Sprachen (auch des Deutschen) auf schier unüberwindbare Schwierigkeiten stoßen.

Mark Twain begibt sich auf Weltreise und uns wird das Vergnügen gewährt, mitkommen zu dürfen. In spielerischer Leichtigkeit verknüpft Twain historisches Wissen über Länder und Ethnien, naturwissenschaftliche Begebenheiten und Unglaubliches der Tier- und Pflanzenwelt, Besonderheiten regionaler Extravaganzen mit Legenden lokaler Helden und Anekdoten über außergewöhnliche Ereignisse und Personen, die ihm widerfahren bzw. welchen er begegnet.