Tom Sawyer Abroad/Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories

by Mark Twain

This antiquarian volume comprises a collection of stories written by Mark Twain, including "Tom Sawyer Abroad"; "Tom Sawyer, Detective"; "The Stolen White Elephant", and many more. This marvellous collection of Twain’s masterful literature would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. The stories of this collection “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, “Tom Sawyer, Detective”, “The Stolen White Elephant”, “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion”, “The Pacts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”, “About Magnanimous-Incident Literature”, “Pinch, Brothers, Punch”, “The Great Revolution in Pitcairn”, and more. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). Other notable works by this author “The Gilded A Tale of Today” (1873), “The Innocents Abroad” (1896), and “The Prince and the Pauper” (1881). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing these classic works now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction

361 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1896

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had read the two Tom Sawyer stories a while ago, but the other stories and essays in the collection were new to me. They're entertaining, particularly "Punch, Brothers, Punch" which appears to be an early example (without using the term) of an "ear worm" (a tune you can't get out of your head, in this case a jingle for trolley drivers).

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the lesser known stories beyond those in the title were more entertaining, although I enjoyed all of them. I think there may be some stretchers in Tom Sawyer Abroad, a rather fantastical adventure that has Tom, Huck and Jim flying around the world in a balloon. The stories and essays reveal that human nature hasn't changed very much in a hundred years and neither has politics.

[Oma Eagle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have the 1917 edition