Mark Twain
American humorist and journalist whose travel books Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, and The Innocents Abroad are classics of American nonfiction. His late essays, especially 'The War Prayer' and 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness,' are scathing anti-imperialist satires. He invented a distinctly American journalistic voice.
Works
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnNovel following a boy and formerly enslaved man navigating the Mississippi River
- The Adventures of Tom SawyerComing-of-age novel of a mischievous boy's adventures in a small Missouri town
- The Prince and the PauperAdventure novel where a prince and pauper switch places to learn each other's lives
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtComic novel of a Connecticut inventor transported to medieval King Arthur's court
- Life on the MississippiMemoir and historical narrative of steamboating life on the Mississippi River
- Roughing ItTravel memoir describing frontier adventures and mining in the American West
- The Innocents AbroadTravel narrative chronicling humorous misadventures of American tourists abroad
- Following the EquatorTravel narrative documenting a around-the-world journey with cultural observations
- Mark Twain's AutobiographyAutobiography recounting childhood, career, and life experiences of a writer
- The Mysterious StrangerNovel exploring consciousness and moral themes through a young man's supernatural journey