The Original Illustrated Mark Twain
Publisher: Castle; Book Sales
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Seacaucus, NJ, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9780890099261
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Sale Books; Bargain Books
Description: Huckleberry Finn, that most American of classic novels, is the centerpiece of this handsome new anthology of Mark Twain's works, illustrated with drawings from the original editions. The saga of Huck's raft trip on the Mississippi with his friend Jim the black slave has entered American life as an enduring symbol of the search for personal freedom--and also as the finest example of Mark Twain's brilliant skills as a novelist.

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a fast-thinking American is miraculously transported in time back to the England of knights in arbor. His adventures there are Mark Twain's at his hilarious best.

Long-England is also the site of The Prince and the Pauper, one of Twain's most beloved works. This story of look-alike who exchange places is an exciting, revealing and historically accurate study of power and poverty. 

Mark Twain first came to national attention with his riotously funny story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Throughout his career Twain wrote hundreds of amusing stories and sketches. A selection of the best is included in this volume.
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Table of contents: title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn --; title: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court --; title: Prince and the pauper --; title: Short stories : My watch, an instructive little tale --; title: Political economy --; title: "Jumping frog" --; title: Journalism in Tennessee --; title: Story of the bad little boy --; title: Story of the good little boy --; title: Couple of poems by Twain and Moore --; title: Niagara --; title: Answers to correspondents --; title: To raise poultry --; title: Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup --; title: My first literary venture --; title: How the author was sold in Newark --; title: Office bore --; title: Johnny Greer --; title: Great beef contract --; title: Case of George Fisher --; title: Disgraceful persecution of a boy --; title: Judge's "spirited woman" --; title: Information wanted --; title: Some learned fables --; title: My late senatorial secretaryship --; title: Fashion item --; title: Riley, newspaper correspondent --; title: Fine old man --; title: Science vs. luck --; title: Killing of Julius Caesar "localized' --; title: Widows protest --; title: Mr. Bloke's item.