This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur??s Age of Chivalry the ??great and beneficent? miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well […]
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twains story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers?? from Sherwood Anderson to Twains fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from […]
Come along with Wishbone as he sniffs out hidden treasure with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in Mark Twains classic story of boyhood adventure.
A pauper caught up in the pomp of the royal court. A prince wandering horror-stricken through the lower depths of English society. Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain fashioned both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice, and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that belongs to […]