The Mark Twain Treasury Collection: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Pudd'nhead Wilson

Most people remember Mark Twain as America’s greatest humorist. But he was also a novelist of the first rank, as shown by this collection.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1876, is the story of a boy growing up in Missouri in the 1840s (the scene of Twain’s own boyhood). It features humor, as in the famous scene where Tom tricks the neighbor children into a whitewashing a fence by pretending it is fun. There is also page-turning adventure as well as satire, social criticism, ...