How the Author was Sold in Newark

by Mark Twain

Unknown Binding

About the author

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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

[Forked Radish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some jokes just aren't funny which means they aren't jokes, but facts; which are even bigger jokes, especially if they're universally accepted scientific facts.

[April Helms · Rating 4 out of 5]

An author on a lecture tour is asked a favor by a young man- and finds himself the victim of a practical joke. It's not hard to see the ending coming but it's still hilarious.