Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),⁣ well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and

humorist A humorist (American) or humourist (British spelling) is an intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking, but is not an artist who seeks only to elicit laughs. Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business e ...

. Twain is noted for his novels ''

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' or as it is known in more recent editions, ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United S ...

'' (1884), which has been called the " Great American Novel," and ''

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the no ...

'' (1876). He also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and non-fiction. His big break was "

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its orig ...

" (1867).

Novels

* '' The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today'' (1873) * ''

The Prince and the Pauper ''The Prince and the Pauper'' is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547 ...

'' (1881) * ''

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled ''A Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. Some early editions are titled ''A Yankee at the Court of King Arth ...

'' (1889) * '' The American Claimant'' (1892) * '' Pudd'nhead Wilson'' (1894) * ''

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ''Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte'' is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictio ...

'' (1896) * '' A Horse's Tale'' (1907) * ''

The Mysterious Stranger ''The Mysterious Stranger'' is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. ...

'' (1916, posthumous)

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

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'' (1876) # ''

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Tom Sawyer Abroad ''Tom Sawyer Abroad'' is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. Plot In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic ho ...

'' (1894) # ''

Tom Sawyer, Detective ''Tom Sawyer, Detective'' is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876), ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), and '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder ...

'' (1896) # "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians" (c. 1884, 9 chapters, unfinished) # "Huck Finn" (c. 1897, fragment) # " Schoolhouse Hill" (in

) (c. 1898, 6 chapters, unfinished) # "Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy" (c. 1899, 10 chapters, unfinished) # "Tom Sawyer’s Gang Plans a Naval Battle" (c. 1900, fragment)

Adam and Eve

* "

Extracts from Adam's Diary "Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms." is a comic short story by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. It was first published as a book in 1904, by Harper & Bros. with numerous illustrations by Frederick Strothmann. ...

", illustrated by Frederick Strothmann (1904) * "

Eve's Diary "Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine ''Harper's Bazaar'', in book format as one contribution to a volume entitled "Their Husband's Wives" and then in June 1906 as ...

", illustrated by Lester Ralph (1906) * " The Private Life of Adam and Eve: Being Extracts from Their Diaries, Translated from the Original Mss." (Harper, 1931), – posthumous issue of the 1904 and 1906 works bound as one, as Twain had requested in a recently discovered letter

Short stories

* "

" (1865) * " General Washington's Negro Body-Servant" (1868) * "

Cannibalism in the Cars "Cannibalism in the Cars" is a short story written in 1868 by American writer Mark Twain. It tells the darkly humorous tale of apparent acts of cannibalism from the point of view of a congressman on a snowbound train. It indirectly satirizes the ...

" (1868) * "A Medieval Romance"

868 __NOTOC__ Year 868 ( DCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * King Charles the Bald meets his brother Louis the German at Metz. They agree ...

(unfinished) * " My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (1868) *Mark Twain vs Blondin 869 satire letter * "A Ghost Story" (1870) * " A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It" (1874) * " Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls" (1875) * " The Story Of The Bad Little Boy" (1875) * " The Story Of The Good Little Boy" (1875) * " A Literary Nightmare" (1876) * " A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" (1876) * " The Canvasser's Tale" (1876) * " The Invalid's Story" (1877) * " The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (1879) * " 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" (1880) * " The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm" (1882) * " The Stolen White Elephant" (1882) * "

Luck Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to rand ...

" (1891) * " Those Extraordinary Twins" (1892) * " Is He Living Or Is He Dead?" (1893) * " The Esquimau Maiden's Romance" (1893) * "

The Million Pound Bank Note "The Million Pound Bank Note" is a short story by the American author Mark Twain, published in 1893. Plot Henry Adams, a clerk in a San Francisco stockbroker's office, is swept out to sea while sailing one weekend. He is rescued by a ship bound ...

" (1893) * "

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in ''Harper's Monthly'' in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection ''The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg ...

" (1900) * " A Double Barrelled Detective Story" (1902) * " A Dog's Tale" (1904) * "

The War Prayer "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and ...

" (1905) * " Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" (1906) * "

A Fable ''A Fable'' is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time". It won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nat ...

" (1909) * "

Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in ''Harper's Magazine'' in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. Th ...

" (1909) * " My Platonic Sweetheart" (1912, posthumous) * " The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine" (2017, posthumous)

Collections

;Short story collections * '' The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches'' (1867), 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 ''Mark Twain's Library of Humor'' is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbie suggested to Mark Twain that he ...

'' (1888), short story collection * '' Merry Tales'' (1892), short story collection * ''

The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories ''The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories'' is an 1893 collection of short stories by American writer Mark Twain. Background The collection was published in 1893, in a disastrous decade for the United States, a time marked by doubt and w ...

'' (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 * '' Mark Twain's Fables of Man'' (1972, posthumous), short story collection ;Essay collections * ''

Memoranda A memorandum ( : memoranda; abbr: memo; from the Latin ''memorandum'', "(that) which is to be remembered") is a written message that is typically used in a professional setting. Commonly abbreviated "memo," these messages are usually brief and ...

'' (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 ''Letters from the Earth'' is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt an ...

'' (1962, posthumous) * '' A Pen Warmed Up In Hell'' (1972, posthumous) * '' The Bible According to Mark Twain'' (1996, posthumous)

Essays

* " Advice to Little Girls" (1865) *"

On the Decay of the Art of Lying "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in ''The Stolen White Elephant Etc.'' (1882).Twain, Mark. ''C ...

" (1880) * "

The Awful German Language "The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in ''A Tramp Abroad''. The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language. Backgro ...

" (1880) * " Advice to Youth" (1882) * "

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. It draws on examples from '' The Deerslayer'' and '' The Pathfinder'' from Cooper's Leatherstocking ...

" (1895) * " English As She Is Taught" (1897) * " Concerning the Jews" (1898) * "My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It" (1899) * " 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 "The United States of Lyncherdom" is an essay by Mark Twain written in 1901. He wrote it in response to the mass lynchings in Pierce City, Missouri, of Will Godley, his grandfather French Godley, and Eugene Carter (also known as Barrett). The thre ...

" (1923, posthumous)

Non-fiction

* ''

The Innocents Abroad ''The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress'' is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel ''Quaker City'' ( ...

'' (1869), travel * ''

Roughing It ''Roughing It'' is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first travel book ''The Innocents Abroad'' (1869). ''Roughing It'' is dedicated to Twa ...

'' (1872), travel * '' Old Times on the Mississippi'' (1876), travel * '' Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion'' (1877), travel * ''

A Tramp Abroad ''A Tramp Abroad'' is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created ...

'' (1880), travel * '' Life on the Mississippi'' (1883), travel * ''

Following the Equator ''Following the Equator'' (sometimes titled ''More Tramps Abroad'') is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into the failed ...

'' (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? ''Is He Dead?'' is a play by Mark Twain based on his earlier 1893 short story. The play, written by Twain in 1898, was first published in print in 2003 after Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin read the manuscript in the archives of the Mark ...

'' (1898), play * '' The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated'' (1901), satirical lyric * ''

King Leopold's Soliloquy ''King Leopold's Soliloquy'' is a 1905 pamphlet by American author Mark Twain. Its subject is King Leopold's rule over the Congo Free State. A work of political satire harshly condemnatory of his actions, it ostensibly recounts a fictional mo ...

'' (1905), satire * '' Little Bessie Would Assist Providence'' (1908), poem * '' Slovenly Peter'' (1935, posthumous), children's book * '' 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 The ''North American Review'' (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others. It was published continuously until 1940, after which it was inactive until revived at ...

'' (1906–1907) ::Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (1924) ::Posthumous edition named ''Mark Twain in Eruption'' compiled and edited by

Bernard DeVoto Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955) was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the Ame ...

(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) ::Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Robert Hirst and the Mark Twain Project: ''Volume 2'' (2013) ::Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and the Mark Twain Project: ''Volume 3'' (2015) * '' Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880'' (2010, posthumous) * " ''Territorial Enterprise'' letters" being compiled for release in 2017.

References

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