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Best Selling Books by Mark TwainMark Twain is the author of The Writings of Mark Twain (1924), The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Writings of Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (1917), The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Life on the Mississippi (1903), The Writings of Mark Twain: The adventures of Tom Sawyer (1903).
The Writings of Mark Twain
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Writings of Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Life on the Mississippi
The Writings of Mark Twain: The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: Life on the Mississippi
The Complete Letters of Mark Twain
release date: Dec 19, 2023
Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Life on the Mississippi
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The gilded age; a tale of today, by Mark Twain ... and C. D. Warner
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: The gilded age; a tale of today, by Mark Twain ... and C.D. Warner
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: Tom Sawyer abroad, Tom Sawyer, detective, and other stories, etc., etc
Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings (LOA #5)
This Library of America collection presents Twain''s best-known works, including Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, together in one volume for the first time. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions and perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began Huckleberry Finn the same year Tom Sawyer was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to Life on the Mississippi. The river in Twain’s descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty and power, seductive calms and treacherous shoals, pleasure and terror, an image of the societies it touches and transports. Each of these works is filled with comic and melodramatic adventure, with horseplay and poetic evocations of scenery, and with characters who have become central to American mythology—not only Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in Puddn’head Wilson, one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. With each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement and despair, until with Puddn’head Wilson, high jinks and games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of four works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the “strong brown god.” For Twain, the river represented the complex and often contradictory possibilities in his own and his nation’s life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west with its comforts and proprieties, discovers and contends with the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, and promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot—an experience recounted in Life on the Mississippi—move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play and boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Writings of Mark Twain: The gilded age: a tale of today
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud. ]
release date: Feb 27, 2019
Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Writings of Mark Twain: The gilded age : a tale of to-day
Mark Twain's Letters (1876-1885)
release date: Oct 04, 2023
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
release date: Nov 15, 2010
Best Works of Mark Twain's Mississippi Memoirs: [Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain/ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain/ The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain]
release date: Jun 24, 2024
The Writings of Mark Twain: The gilded age, a tale of today, by Mark Twain and C. D. Warner
The Writings of Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer abroad ; Tom Sawyer, detective, and other stories, etc. etc
release date: Nov 15, 2023
The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: The gilded age, by Mark Twain ... and Charles Dudley Warner
The Writings of Mark Twain: The innocents abroad, or the new pilgrim's progress
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