The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans.

Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

"There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America.

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who ...

Classics for children

The spirit of the Mississippi flows through all Mark Twain's best work and here the romantic heyday of the steamboat is recalled in a characteristically nostalgic mixture of journalism and autobiography.