Mark Twain wrote novels, stories, travel writing and satire, often using colloquial American voices to expose social pretence and contradiction. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows a mischievous boy in a Mississippi River town through school, games, a murder witnessed in a graveyard and a dangerous cave, while Adventures of Huckleberry Finn sends Huck and the escaped slave Jim down the Mississippi on a raft. The latter uses Huck's first-person voice to place questions of slavery, violence and conventional morality inside an episodic journey. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court turns time travel into satire as a nineteenth-century American tries to remake medieval society with modern technology and ideas. Twain's writing can be comic, adventurous and sharply critical within the same book. His work spans American classics, adventure fiction and social satire, with readers of Charles Dickens or Robert Louis Stevenson finding related mixtures of humour, travel and social observation. Read more Less
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