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The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character.

Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.

Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble.

Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.

When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.

Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.

Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada.

In perhaps the most satirical children’s book of all time, Mark Twain dishes out outrageous, witty, and practical advice for girls with ease.

A detective thriller set in Sydney and introducing Cliff Hardy, private investigator, who is paid to unravel problems the police can't or won't handle.

Even when he's not involved in a major case, PI Cliff Hardy's life is far from routine.

John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.

It's only 24 hours into a new case and PI Cliff Hardy's already been heavied; you know that the job is going to get his full attention.

When Barnes Todd is killed in a car smash south of Sydney, people are lining up to say how sorry they are. But Cliff Hardy, private investigator, soon discovers the accident was really murder.

Sacked by the Federal Security Agency, Crawley plays dangerous games in the Melbourne underworld.