Sketches Book 1 - Sketches New and Old is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow author, defends the virtue of a dead woman, and tries to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors. Sketches Book 2 - Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Tom Sawyer, Detective and Punch Brother punch are also amongst the sketches. Sketches Book 3 - The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. Merry Tales - The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The Invalid`s Story, Luck, The Captain`s Story, A Curious Experience, Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning, Meisterschaft(in three acts) - Act I, Act II, Act III The Ј1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories - The Ј1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories, Mental Telegraphy, A cure for the blues, The Curious Book Complete, About all kinds of ships, Playing courier, The German Chicago, A Petition to the Queen of England, A Majestic literary fossil