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"The American Claimant is enormous fun. I'm here to celebrate the mad energy of this strange novel. In it we have the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's imagination go berserk," writes Bobbie Ann Mason in her introduction. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is the 1892 novel by the famous American author Mark Twain. The novel is written in a strikingly new fashion, something Twain was not amateur to, in that it does not contain any mention of the weather. All notes on weather are featured in the appendix in... Read Full Overview

"The American Claimant is enormous fun. I'm here to celebrate the mad energy of this strange novel. In it we have the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's imagination go berserk," writes Bobbie Ann Mason in her charming introduction to this novel. The American Claimant is a comedy... Read Full Overview

This lighthearted farce features an American under the spell of Britain's aristocracy and an English earl equally intrigued by American democracy. While eccentric inventor Colonel Mulberry Sellers attempts to pursue his claim to the earldom of Rossmore, the rightful heir determines... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is a novel written by the renowned American author, Mark Twain. It is a satirical work that tells the story of an American named Colonel Mulberry Sellers who believes he is the rightful heir to a British estate. The novel is set in England and follows the... Read Full Overview

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. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention... Read Full Overview