Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain?s favorite and most memorable writings includ
In her biography of her father, Mark Twain's daughter Olivia recalls watching her mother mark pages of the Huckleberry Finn manuscript to be excised for obscenity. This volume, part of a series that b
These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre
Witty, irreverent tales of war and the supernatural from the maverick misanthrope of American literature. Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 &am
During the pivotal period of America?s international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the a
Alphabetically arranged entries use an integrated "new historicist" approach to offer a comprehensive overview of the period that spans the early national era through the Civil War to the end of World