This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Cranes novel does not...
Roughing It By Mark Twain
The semiautobiographical travel memoir records Twains, more or less, personal journey across the Wild West in search of adventure while exploring variable locations. Accompanying...
Eve's Diary By Mark Twain
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and...
My Mark Twain by HOWELLS, William Dean
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell,...
Stolen White Elephant, The by TWAIN, Mark
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to...
Treaty with China, The by TWAIN, Mark
A good candidate for the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain would be The Treaty With China, which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by TWAIN, Mark
Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny,...
Life on the Mississippi by TWAIN, Mark
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Double Barreled Detective Story, A by TWAIN, Mark
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock...
