
Mark Twain
9 SeriesMark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), was a renowned American author. He is best known for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Twain's work received widespread acclaim, and he was celebrated among a diverse circle of influential contemporaries.
Mark Twain's "The Gilded Age," co-authored with C.D. Warner, critiques societal corruption. In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," also known as "A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur," a modern man brings industrial innovations to medieval England. Twain's "The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass," written under the pseudonym Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, offers humorous sketches and tales.