Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our nation's writers. Mississippi Writings gathers Twain's most famous works - Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Filled with comic and melodramatic adventure, these four books trace the central trajectory of Twain's life and career and can be read as a single masterpiece.

The second volume, Historical Romances, collects for the first time Twain's three works set in medieval and Renaissance Europe. The Prince and the Pauper brings a nineteenth-century American's viewpoint to the traditional society of Henry VIII's England. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is both a hilarious burlesque of knighthood and a darker questioning of medieval and modern social mores. Long unavailable, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is Twain's account of 'the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.'

Each volume contains authoritative and unabridged texts, helpful notes, and a detailed and informative chronology of the writer's life.

Plus - FREE Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels Clothbound, slipcased edition 1,053 pages The Gilded Age • The American Claimant • Tom Sawyer Abroad • Tom Sawyer, Detective • No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger These five novels show America's greatest humorist in a range of moods and styles: satiric (The Gilded Age), playful (The American Claimant), reminiscent (two Tom Sawyer sequels), and philosophical (No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger). Originally published in heavily edited form, Twain's final novel appears here in the authoritative text established a half century after his death. An 1874 engraving of Twain.