Hemingway said that all of modern American literature comes from a single book by Mark Twain; Faulkner called him the father of American literature. Almost everyone has read two of his novels. Almost no one has read the rest. This volume is the whole of Mark Twain, gathered in a single book.
At its heart are the American classics—The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the boy’s-eye masterpieces of the Mississippi—together with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Prince and the Pauper, Pudd’nhead Wilson, and The Gilded Age (written with Charles Dudley Warner), the satire that gave an age its name.
But Twain was far more than his novels. Here too are the great travel books that first made him famous—The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator—along with his funniest and fiercest short fiction and sketches, the essays and satires (from “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” to the savage “King Leopold’s Soliloquy”), and the man himself in his own words: his autobiography, his speeches, and his letters.
WHY THIS EDITION? Twain’s two famous books are free everywhere. The complete Twain is not. This Erato Press edition gathers the novels, the travel writing, the stories, the essays, the autobiography, the speeches, and the letters into one volume—so the reader who came for Huckleberry Finn can discover the funniest, angriest, most American writer who ever lived, entire.
This annotated edition includes:
The major novels, complete—including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut YankeeThe five great travel booksThe complete shorter fiction, sketches, essays, and satiresTwain’s own Autobiography, Speeches, and LettersOriginal afterwords and editorial notes by Henry BugalhoA century after his death, with Mark Twain once again at the center of American attention, here is the whole of his life’s work—in a single volume.
