Mark Twain bibliography

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),^[1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and non-fiction.

Novels

• The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873)^{[N 1]}
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
• The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
• The American Claimant (1892)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
• The Mysterious Stranger (1916, posthumous)

Short stories

• "Advice to Little Girls" (1865)
• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1867)
• "General Washington's Negro Body-Servant" (1868)
• "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (1868)
• "A Ghost Story" (1870)^{[2]:176–180}
• "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It" (1874)^[2]:70–73
• "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls" (1875)^[2]:77–83
• "A Literary Nightmare" (1876)
• "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" (1876)
• "The Invalid's Story" (1877)^[2]:135–?
• "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (1879)
• "1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" (1880)
• "The Stolen White Elephant" (1882)
• "Luck" (1891)
• "Those Extraordinary Twins" (1892)
• "The ₤1,000,000 Note" (1893)^{[2]:226–238}
• "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1900)
• "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" (1902)
• "A Dog's Tale" (1904)
• "Extracts from Adam's Diary" (1904)
• "The War Prayer" (1905)
• "Eve's Diary" (1906)
• "A Horse's Tale" (1907)
• "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" (1909)
• "My Platonic Sweetheart" (1912, posthumous)
• "The Private Life of Adam and Eve" (1931, posthumous)

Collections

Short story collections

• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1869), short story collection
• Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (1871), short story collection
• Sketches New and Old (1875), short story collection
• A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (1877), short story collection
• Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches (1878), short story collection
• Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888), short story collection
• Merry Tales (1892), short story collection
• The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (1893), short story collection
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906), short story collection
• The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches (1919, posthumous), short story collection
• The Washoe Giant in San Francisco (1938, posthumous), short story collection

Essay collections

• Memoranda (1870-1871), essay collection from Galaxy
• How to Tell a Story and other Essays (1897)
• Europe and Elsewhere (1923, posthumous), edited by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Letters from the Earth (1962, posthumous)
• A Pen Warmed Up In Hell (1972, posthumous)^[3]
• The Bible According to Mark Twain (1996, posthumous)^[4]

Essays

• "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" (1880)
• "The Awful German Language" (1880)
• "Advice to Youth" (1882)
• "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)
• "English As She Is Taught" (1887)
• "Concerning the Jews" (1898)
• "A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth" (1900)
• "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" (1901)
• "To My Missionary Critics" (1901)
• "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" (1901)
• "What Is Man?" (1906)
• "Christian Science" (1907)
• "Queen Victoria's Jubilee" (1910)
• "The United States of Lyncherdom" (1923, posthumous)

Non-fiction

• The Innocents Abroad (1869), travel
• Roughing It (1872), travel
• Old Times on the Mississippi (1876), travel
• A Tramp Abroad (1880), travel
• Life on the Mississippi (1883), travel
• Following the Equator (sometimes titled "More Tramps Abroad") (1897), travel
• Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)
• Moments with Mark Twain (1920, posthumous)
• Mark Twain's Notebook (1935, posthumous)
• Letters from Hawaii (letters written in 1866, published as a book in 1947)

Other writings

• Is He Dead? (1898), play
• "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" (1901), satirical lyric
• King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905), satire
• "Little Bessie Would Assist Providence" (1908), poem
• Slovenly Peter (1935, posthumous), children's book^{[N 2]}
• "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" (1879), a speech given to The Stomach Club

Autobiography and letters

• Mark Twain's Autobiography

Chapters from My Autobiography published by North American Review (1906–1907)^[5]

Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (1924)

Posthumous edition named Mark Twain in Eruption compiled and edited by Bernard DeVoto (1940)

Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Charles Neider

Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and the Mark Twain Project: Volume 1 (2010)

• Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880 (2010, posthumous)^[6]
• "Territorial Enterprise letters" being compiled for release in 2017.^[7]

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