Тому Сойеру двенадцать, и он страстно любит жизнь, игры и шалости — а не школу и не правила, ведь ни в правилах, ни в школе нет жизни. А еще у него острый ум, который особенно пригождается, когда нужно избежать наказания или подшутить над друзьями. Что же из него выйдет, спросите вы? О, когда он вырастет, Том определенно станет пиратом!...

This is Mark Twain\"s description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the river valley. It includes character sketches, historical facts, information and reminiscences of Twain\"s boyhood and experiences as a steam-boat pilot....

Rediscover Puffin Classics - timeless stories for each new generation. Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays and their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is prince, heir to King Henry VIII of England, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper....

Mark Twain\"s tale of a boy\"s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before....

Haunted houses, mysterious Counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this beautiful collection of 97 ghost stories will delight, unnerve, and entertain any fiction lover brave enough......

An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have written the works – full of erudition and accurate professional jargon – which are attributed to him, Mark Twain offers an eloquent and entertaining analysis of this issue of authorship, peppered with personal recollecti...

The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain\"s humorous narrative of his own travels across Europe. It began life as a series of newspaper columns narrating the voyage of the USS Quaker City....

This delightful six-volume collection features many of Mark Twain\"s best-loved novels, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sayer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective; The Prince and the Pauper; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur\"s Court and The American Claimant; and Puddn\"head Wilson and The Mysterious Stra...

Tom Sawyer is a playful and mischievous boy who lives with his half-brother Sid and his Aunt Polly in Missouri. Join him on his hapless adventures around his town and beyond, as he tries to have fun without getting into trouble....

\\\"The first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.\\\" - William Faulkner on Mark Twain This beautiful hardback collection brings together Mark Twain\"s earliest and most celebrated novels: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper....

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. Tom is a pauper. His father sends him onto the streets of London to beg for money every day....

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. It is 1547 in London, and Tom is a pauper. His father sends him onto the streets of London to beg for money every day, and hits him when he brings nothing back....

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that\"s for sure....

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning....

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. \"We said there warn\"t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don\"t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft....