Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Huck and the runaway Jim float down the Mississippi on a raft in the book that Hemingway said started all of modern American literature. Twain uses frontier voices and river adventures to deliver one of the funniest and sharpest moral tales in the language.

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer fakes illnesses, tricks friends into whitewashing fences, and stumbles into real danger in the Missouri of Twain's own boyhood. A comic portrait of childhood that still reads fresh almost a century and a half after publication.

Mark Twain

Twain's account of an 1867 steamship tour of Europe and the Holy Land is the bestselling travel book of nineteenth century America. It is also a nonstop comic demolition of tourist piety, bad food, and the gap between guidebooks and reality.

Mark Twain