If he had only written The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain would still be an American icon and a novelist to be reckoned with. Yet Twain was also a best-selling travel writer, essayist, social critic and skeptic whose wide diversity of interests and exceptional powers of observation informed everything he wrote. In Simply Twain, author R. Kent Rasmussen explores not only Twain's beloved masterpieces, but also some of his less well-known works, and shows why, a century after his death, Twain's literary reputation continues to grow.