In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is...

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the real Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowdens Life of Shelley. Even though, as Twain writes, Shelleys life has...

A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The...

This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens increasing sense of...

This is Mark Twains vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Coopers literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twains essay, Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses...

What Is Man?, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of...

The Stolen White Elephant was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New...

A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800s - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his...

Twain (Marc Twain) & The Giant (Rodney The Giant) was originally founded in Detroit, MI in 2013. The idea was sparked by Elle Woods (wife of The Giant) who noticed that Twain &...