Mark Twain

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

The surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through...

Esta obra de Mark Twain relata la vida de Tom, un niño que vive en una ciudad pequeña del suroeste de Estados Unidos a orillas del Mississippi. Criado por su tía Polly, que lo quiere de corazón, pero que lo somete a una disciplina que a él se le hace absurda y desagradable. Tom contempla el mundo de una manera muy diferente a como lo hacen los adultos con los que tiene que convivir. Más agreste y rebelde contra ese universo de las personas...

В Лондоне принц Уэльский, сын короля Генриха VIII, мечтает о свободе: как весело, должно быть, бегать по улицам и драться с другими мальчиками! В том же городе Том Кенти, мальчик из бедной семьи, мечтает только о том, чтобы вырваться из нищеты ... Когда волею...

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger, offended by the pious reputation of the town, devises a plan to bring its honored residents to shame. Is there even one righteous man in Hadleyburg?

In 1894, while enduring a period of personal turbulence, Mark Twain penned this fascinating tale set in the idyllic river community of his childhood. Alternating between comedy and tragedy, irony and gravity, Pudd'nhead Wilson mirrors much of the social and moral unrest of the time. When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again....

Most people are unaware that Mark Twain spent over a decade researching Saint Joan of Arc and wrote what he considered to be his greatest work-Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc-originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1895 as chapters attributed to the fictitious author Sieur Louis de Conte. When the public found out that Twain was actually the author, many were suspicious, thinking Twain was perpetrating some kind of a joke. Twain's biographer...

Locked in his desk for 25 years, What Is Man? was Twain's most serious, philosophical, and private work. The narrative appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic. The pair debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and if man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and...

En esta obra, de corte histórico, que se sitúa a mediados del siglo XVI. El parecido físico permite a Tom Canty, un niño pobre y soñador, suplantar al príncipe Eduardo, que se aburre en palacio. De este modo, el príncipe, mezclado con el pueblo, conoce las injusticias cometidas por su gobierno. Pero ¿qué ocurrirá cuando quiera recuperar su identidad y reparar sus errores? Una fascinante historia con excelentes dramatizaciones y ambientación...

"Los Diarios de Adán y Eva" es una colección de relatos escritos por Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), un destacado escritor y humorista estadounidense. La obra, publicada en 1906, presenta una perspectiva ingeniosa y humorística sobre la relación entre Adán y Eva, los personajes bíblicos, desde sus puntos de vista respectivos. En este libro, Twain adopta el estilo de un diario íntimo, alternando entre las entradas de Adán y Eva. A través...