Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want to activate their students' language through reading, . From original stories, classic and contemporary...

The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American "New Barbarians” and the European "Old World” provides much comic fodder for...

Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters...

Hank Morgan, ein waschechter Yankee, wird durch einen Schlag auf den Kopf an den Hof von König Artus zurückversetzt, wo er mit seinen profunden naturwissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen mächtig Eindruck macht. Seinen Konkurrenten Merlin kann...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of...

Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer von Twain, Mark

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThis irresistible tale of the adventures of two friends growing up in frontier America is one of Mark Twain's most popular novels. The farcical, colorful,...

Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. von Twain, Mark

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge...

Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. The name Mark Twain is a phrase used on riverboats...

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and "The Man That Corrupted...

Tante Polly hat's nicht immer leicht mit Tom. Der Junge hat eine blühende Fantasie und nichts als Flausen im Kopf. Er schwänzt die Schule und wird Pirat, will Becky Thatchers Herz gewinnen und findet einen Schatz, verirrt sich in einer...