Mark Twain

“A mischievous boy in a Mississippi River town tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence, runs away to be a pirate, witnesses a murder in a graveyard, and hunts for buried treasure.”

“In Tudor London, a beggar boy and Prince Edward, alike as twins, change clothes for a joke — and are each trapped in the other's life, the pauper on the throne and the true king wandering his kingdom as a ragged madman.”

“Escaping his drunken father and the people who want to 'sivilize' him, Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, a man fleeing slavery, and has to decide for himself what is right.”

“Knocked on the head in a Connecticut gun factory, Hank Morgan wakes in sixth-century Camelot, escapes the stake by predicting an eclipse, and sets out to modernise King Arthur's England — with newspapers, soap, telephones and, in the end, dynamite.”