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What do you get when you combine classic travel literature with the inimitable wit of Mark Twain? The Innocents Abroad, is a keenly observant, politically incorrect and often hilarious narration of the authors cruise to the Holy Land aboard a retired Civil War ship. First published in 1869 and the bestselling of Twains works in his lifetime, The Innocents Abroad will delight listeners with the celebrated authors musings on historic landmarks, ...

Huckleberry Finn may be the greater book, but Tom Sawyer has always been more widely read. Moreover, it is a book that can be enjoyed equally by both children and adults. Twain, who called it a "hymn" to boyhood.

After the young Prince Edward VI of England and a peasant boy switch places, the "little king" tries to escape from a world in which he must beg for food, sleep with rodents, face ridicule, and avoid assassination. Meanwhile, the peasant, who is now the prince, dreads exposure and possible execution, members of the Court believe he has gone mad. As a result of the swap, both boys learn that social class, like so much of life, is determined by ...

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Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, which begins with "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a desire for social justice.