The Illustrated Mark Twain

by Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (Introduction)

An anthology of the works of Mark Twain including the complete texts of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, selections from his travel and humorous sketches, and excerpts from lesser-known novels. Texts are taken from first editions and include the original illustrations.

Genres: Fiction, Classics

1232 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Reviews

[Tinquerbelle]

1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Selections from:
3) Mark Twain's Sketches
4) The Prince and the Pauper
5) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

6) Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography

Selections from:
7) The Innocents Abroad
8) Roughing It
9) The Gilded Age
10) A Tramp Abroad
11) Life on the Mississippi

[Charles M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mark Twain's works are always fun and enjoyable to read...but when you see the original art work...it's that much more fun and enjoyable. This work should be on the book shelf of any Mark Twain reader!!!

[Abby Mace · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Those two stories were the best out of this book. The rest of it I was disappointed with. The short stories were hard to read due to the text, and therefore hard to follow along. They also were not as detailed and well thought out as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

[Matthew Hurley · Rating 4 out of 5]

The illustrations are great.