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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. It continues with anecdotes of Twain’s training as a steamboat [...]

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe first published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. Today, it is considered the first detective story.[ Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who decides to solve the mysterious [...]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter Pearl in her arms. And sewn to her garment, the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The scarlet letter “A” represents the act [...]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of “Huck” Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer’s sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), his friend Jim, and their journey down the Mississippi River [...]

n the early 1880′s, Mark Twain learned to ride one of the old high-wheel bicycles of that period. He wrote an account of his experience, but did not offer it for publication. The form of bicycle he rode long ago became antiquated, but in the humour of his pleasantry is a quality which does not [...]