Four Complete Novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Artur's Court and Other Works
Foreword by Anne Ficklen. Terrific of the best of Twain includes his masterpieces-- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, --with his burlesque Autobiography and selections from Sketches . Illustrated in black and white.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.