Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia. 2.) The Austrian Edison keeping school again 3.) The Canvassers tale. 4.) The Czars...

This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twains anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)....

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain...

Those Extraordinary Twins was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twains The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. As Twain explains, he extricated...

First appearing as a serial in Cornhill Magazine in 1880, Washington Square focuses on the strained relationship between father and daughter, which is instigated as a result of...

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style...

Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is Jamess first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of Jamess work, is already central to the...

Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the...

Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older,...