The Mark Twain Reader

By Mark Twain

Subjects: Boys, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Tom Sawer, adventure and adventurers, literature, Runaway children, Male friendship, voyages and travels, orphans, young men, boys in literature, child witnesses, Fugitive slaves, Adventures of Huck Finn, slavery, Fiction, friendship, Social life and customs, history, runaway teenagers, Classic Fiction, rafting, Juvenile fiction, juvenile literature, Slaves, Travel, Race relations

Description: Novels : Old times on the Mississippi.--The adventures of Tom Sawyer.--[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn)--The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.--The prince and the pauper ; Short stories : The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County.--The awful German language.--On the decay of the art of lying.--Extracts from Adam's diary.--Eve's diary.--How to tell a story.--Curing a cold.--The danger of lying in bed.--A medieval romance.--A curious dream.--Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning.--A true story.--The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton.