About the author

  Works by the author

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

  Study guides from SparkNotes

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Pudd'nhead Wilson

  Quotations

• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
• The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.