The following complete books of Mark Twain are included in this volume: Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

The following, each one complete in itself, are taken from the separate volumes of the complete set: Pudd'nhead Wilson; Tom Sawyer Abroad; The Jumping Frog; The Petrified Man; My Bloody Massacre; The Stolen White Elephant; Punch, Brothers, Punch; Speech on the Weather; Eve's Diary; The Turning-point of My Life; The Awful German Language; Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story; The Invalid's Story; The Last Lotos Club Speech; The Mysterious Stranger; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven; The Private History of a Campaign That Failed; To the Person Sitting in Darkness; Corn-pone Opinions; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; My Début as a Literary Person.

The following extracts are included: Baker's Bluejay Yarn from A Tramp Abroad, and Fourteen Selected Chapters from Volumes One and Two of the The Gilded Age.

All the material in this book is printed in unabridged form.
--front flap