Biography Books
Dante - ''The Central Man of All the World''
John T. SlatteryA world-literary-movement will commemorat in 1921 the six hundredth anniversary of the death of the immortal Dante. That a medievalist should call forth the homage of the twentieth century to the exte..
Editorial Wild Oats
Mark TwainEditorial Wild Oats is a collection of short stories and his journey towards his literary career narrating his experience blended with humor...
A Tramp Abroad
Mark TwainA Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, wi..
Is Shakespeare Dead?
Mark TwainIs Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, a..
Life on the Mississippi
Mark TwainLife on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississ..
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, vol 2
Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain that recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 ye..
Chapters from My Autobiography
Mark TwainThe Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript ..
Roughing It
Mark TwainRoughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869)..