The Just So Stories for Little Children, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of fantastic stories, typically about how...

Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas. Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the...

“[Twain] was, in the phrase of his friend William Dean Howells, ‘the Lincoln of our literature’... At the heart of his work lies that greatest of all American...

I was born humble, but it wore off! Mark TwainWelcome to The Mark Twain Speaks Podcast. My name is Don McNeill and my goal is to bring the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain back to...

This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not included in the book Stalky & Co. Of these...

This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his...

The semiautobiographical travel memoir records Twains, more or less, personal journey across the Wild West in search of adventure while exploring variable locations. Accompanying...

Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and...

Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia. 2.) The Austrian Edison keeping school again 3.) The Canvassers tale. 4.) The Czars...