"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

"Letters from the earth" is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Twain penned a series of letters from the point-of-view of a dejected angel on Earth. This title story consists of letters written by the archangel...

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

An introduction to the life, times, and works of the celebrated 19th-century American author.