Stories
Every edition in the series. Each Twain story as he wrote it, annotated and illustrated, with a modern retelling alongside, and a fully illustrated graphic novel on Kindle.
All editions
The Stolen White Elephant
by Mark Twain
A sacred elephant bound for the Queen goes missing in New Jersey, and the celebrated Inspector Blunt mounts an investigation of magnificent thoroughness and no result whatever. Twain’s deadpan satire of the celebrity detective, annotated, with a modern retelling.
Journalism in Tennessee
by Mark Twain
A mild new editor takes a desk at a frontier paper for his health and spends one afternoon shot, bombed, thrown out a window, and mobbed, while his chief calls it vigorous writing. Twain’s newspaper farce, annotated, with a modern retelling.
The Invalid’s Story
by Mark Twain
A sealed train car, a box of rifles, and a wheel of cheese. Twain’s deadpan farce, run alongside his own rules for how a comic story is told, with a modern retelling.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
Twain’s tall tale, told four times over: the original, the French translation that set him off, his deadpan retranslation, and a modern retelling, all annotated and illustrated.
Twain’s words are kept whole. The notes, retellings, and illustrations are new work made with AI and led by a person.