Named a prophet of British imperialism by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the...

The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kiplings best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out....

This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twains anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)....

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain...

Those Extraordinary Twins was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twains The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. As Twain explains, he extricated...

A river memoir documenting Twains early days as an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. Reminiscing about his happy experiences as a...

In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to...

A good candidate for the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain would be The Treaty With China, which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell,...