Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain or Mark Twain’s Autobiography refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations …

A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris, through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the …

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain that recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. The novel is presented as a translation of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's …

Tom Sawyer er en roman fra 1876 av den amerikanske forfatteren Mark Twain. Den handler om gutten Tom Sawyer og om barndom og livet ved elven Mississippi på midten av 1800-tallet. Twain skrev oppfølgeren Huckleberry Finn åtte år senere; her er bipersonen Huckleberry Finn forfremmet til hovedperson.

Huckleberry Finn er en roman fra 1884 av Mark Twain og regnes som hans store mesterverk. Romanen handler for det meste om Huckleberry Finn og den rømte negerslaven Jims reise nedover Mississippi i tiden før den amerikanske borgerkrigen. Romanen har blitt kalt «den store amerikanske romanen», «den amerikanske Odysseen» …

Huckleberry Finn er en roman fra 1884 av Mark Twain og regnes som hans store mesterverk. Romanen handler for det meste om Huckleberry Finn og den rømte negerslaven Jims reise nedover Mississippi i tiden før den amerikanske borgerkrigen. Romanen har blitt kalt «den store amerikanske romanen», «den amerikanske Odysseen» …

MARK TWAIN, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family, and brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After his father´s death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer, and wrote for his brother´s newspaper. Between 1857 and 1861, he was a pilot on the Mississippi. From …

Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of celebrated American author Mark Twain. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life, when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. The content concerns morality and religion and strikes a sarcastic — …