Mark Twain's Library of Humor

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist, best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, often called the Great American Novel. Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1837-1920, editor of the Atlantic Monthly), and Charles Hopkins Clark (1848-1926, journalist for the Hartford Courant). American Illustrator Edward W. Kemble (1861-1933) is best known for illustrating Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.