A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The 1876 novel that gave American literature its archetypal boy hero. Whitewashed fences, cave adventures, and a slingshot tour of small-town life on the Mississippi River.

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The 1884 raft trip down the Mississippi that Hemingway called the source of all modern American literature. Huck and Jim, a runaway boy and a runaway man, talking their way through pre-war America.

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Tudor London, an identical swap, and a king's son living rough in the streets. Twain's 1881 historical novel about justice, mercy, and the difference a crown makes.

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A pre-Civil War Mississippi town, two babies switched in the cradle, and the lawyer-amateur whose fingerprint hobby unmasks them. Twain's sharpest novel on slavery, identity, and inheritance.

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Twain's most researched book and his own favorite. A 1896 fictional biography of Joan of Arc told by her invented secretary, twelve years in the writing.

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