Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Biographical note
American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity. His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".
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Works
Fiction
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [1867]
- General Washington's Negro Body-Servant [1868]
- My Late Senatorial Secretaryship [1868]
- The Gilded Age : A Tale of Today / Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner [1873]
- Sketches New and Old (stories) [1875]
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [1876]
- A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage [1876]
- The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut [1877]
- The Invalid's Story [1877]
- Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other sketches [1878]
- 1601 : Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors [1880]
- The Prince and the Pauper [1882]
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1884]
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [1889]
- The American Claimant [1892]
- Merry Tales [1892]
- Those Extraordinary Twins [1892]
- The £1,000,000 Bank Note and other new stories [1893]
- Tom Sawyer Abroad [1894]
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson [1894]
- Tom Sawyer, Detective [1896]
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc [1896]
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and other stories [1900]
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story [1902]
- A Dog's Tale [1904]
- Extracts from Adam's Diary, translated from the original ms. [1904]
- The War Prayer [1905]
- The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories [1906]
- Eve's Diary, Complete / illustrated by Lester Ralph [1906]
- A Horse's Tale [1907]
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven [1909]
- Letters from the Earth [published posthumously, 1909]
- The Mysterious Stranger [possibly not by Twain, published posthumously, 1916]
- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger [published posthumously, 1969]
Travel
Non-fiction
- Memoranda (monthly column for The Galaxy magazine) [1870-71]
- Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance [1871]
- Old Times on the Mississippi [1876]
- Life on the Mississippi [1883]
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays [1897]
- Is He Dead? (play) [1898]
- A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth (essay) [1900]
- The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (satire) [1901]
- Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (political satire) [1901]
- To the Person Sitting in Darkness (essay) [1901]
- To My Missionary Critics (essay) The North Atlantic Review 172(April 1901) [1901]
- King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire) [1905]
- What is Man? and other essays [1906]
- What is Man?
- The Death of Jean
- The Turning-Point of My Life
- How to Make History Dates Stick
- The Memorable Assassination
- A Scrap of Curious History
- Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
- At the Shrine of St. Wagner
- William Dean Howells
- English as she is Taught
- A Simplified Alphabet
- As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
- Concerning Tobacco
- The Bee
- Taming the Bicycle
- Christian Science [1907]
- Is Shakespeare Dead? [1909]
- Queen Victoria's Jubilee [1910]
- Alonzo Fitz and other stories
- Chapters from My Autobiography
- Complete Letters of Mark Twain
- The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches
- Editorial Wild Oats
- Essays on Paul Bourget
- Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
- Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
- In Defence of Harriet Shelley
- Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866)
- Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)
- Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
- Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
- Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906)
- Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)
- Mark Twain's Speeches
- The Mysterious Stranger
- On the Decay of the Art of Lying
- Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
- The Stolen White Elephant
- The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained : New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868
- My Platonic Sweetheart (dream journal) [1912]
- Mark Twain's Autobiography (published posthumously) [1924]
- Mark Twain's Notebook (published posthumously) [1935]
- Letters from the Earth (posthumous, edited by Bernard DeVoto) [1962]
- Concerning the Jews (published posthumously) [1985]


