Julia Grigorieva Grigorieva itibaren Texas itibaren Texas

Mark Twain is one of my favorite authors -- although more for his satire than for his Americana. This book combines both genres and manages to be entertaining even when the denouement was predictable from page 1 (or possibly the book cover). I suspect that fingerprinting was unknown to many readers when Twain published this book, so it may have been more surprising to them. Yet even so, the book is eminently worth reading, and the final courtroom scene is a page-turner. The characters derive much of their richness from their dialogue, and dialects. Twain must have been a masterful observer of people. And, in true Twain form, the final sentence of the book made me laugh out loud.

Mum bought this book for me when I was about 2 years old.