Mark Twain

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"Boyhood memeories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the printshops of Hannibal are here transformed into a story set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprentice - a youthful mysterious stranger with the curious name 44 - gradually reveals his supernatural powers and the hidden possibilities of the human mind." From the book jacket....

This lighthearted farce features an American under the spell of Britain's aristocracy and an English earl equally intrigued by American democracy. While eccentric inventor Colonel Mulberry Sellers attempts to pursue his claim to the earldom of Rossmore, the rightful heir determines to renounce his title and find a place in American society. When the young lord's identity is wiped out in a hotel fire, he's free to assume a new name and realize his...

The Most Humorous Selections from His Stories, Sketches, Novels, Travel Books and Lectures

Presents a humorous look at Adam and Eve's time in the Garden of Eden, in which they describe their opinions of naming the animals, eating the forbidden fruit, and their sons, Cain and Abel.