The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (Harper & Brothers Edition)

Boards lightly soiled, pages ridges and endpapers foxed. 1899 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 397, [5] pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles. A 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. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy.