Written as a fictionalized account of Mark Twain’s own short-lived war experience, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" is a satiric sketch of the

When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia

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This is an anthology of seven short stories and sketches by famous author Mark Twain. Tales include The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The Invalid's

This book explores Twain's major writings as they address the New World and the Old, race, slavery, imperialism, the possibility of American literary form and t