Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),⁣ well known by his

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Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Fau ...

, was an American author and

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. Twain is noted for his novels ''

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, th ...

'' (1884), which has been called the "

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," and ''

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (also simply known as ''Tom Sawyer'') is a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876, about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1830s-1840s in the town of St. Petersbu ...

'' (1876). He also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and non-fiction. His big break was " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (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. The plot conce ...

'' (1881) * ''

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' is an 1889 historical 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 ...

'' (1889) * '' The American Claimant'' (1892) * ''

Pudd'nhead Wilson ''Pudd'nhead Wilson'' is a novel by American writer Mark Twain published on 28 November 1894. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 Black American, black ancestry; the other, White American, white, bor ...

'' (1894) * '' Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc'' (1896) * '' A Horse's Tale'' (1907) * '' The Mysterious Stranger'' (1916, posthumous)

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

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'' (1876) # ''

'' (1884) # '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894) # '' Tom Sawyer, Detective'' (1896) # "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians" (c. 1884, 9 chapters, unfinished) # "Huck Finn" (c. 1897, fragment) # " Schoolhouse Hill" (in The Mysterious Stranger) (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", illustrated by Frederick Strothmann (1904) * " Eve's Diary", 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

* " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865) * " General Washington's Negro Body-Servant" (1868) * " Cannibalism in the Cars" (1868) * "A Medieval Romance" 868(unfinished) * " My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (1868) *Mark Twain vs Blondin 1869 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" (1865) * " 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) * "

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" (1891) * " Those Extraordinary Twins" (1892) * " Is He Living Or Is He Dead?" (1893) * " The Esquimau Maiden's Romance" (1893) * " The Million Pound Bank Note" (1893) * " The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1900) * " A Double Barrelled Detective Story" (1902) * " A Dog's Tale" (1904) * " The War Prayer" (1905) * " Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" (1906) * " A Fable" (1909) * " Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" (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'' ("Humour" for the UK edition) (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 * '' Mark Twain's Fables of Man'' (1972, posthumous), short story collection * ''Early Tales & Sketches: 1864-1865'' (2 vols. 1981). Edited by Edgar Marquess Branch and Robert H. Hirst. Published for The Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press. ;Essay collections * ''

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'' (1870–1871), essay collection from ''

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'' * '' 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) * '' The Bible According to Mark Twain'' (1996, posthumous)

Essays

* " Advice for Good Little Girls" (1865) *" On the Decay of the Art of Lying" (1880) * " The Awful German Language" (1880) * " Advice to Youth" (1882) * "

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" is one of Mark Twain's sketches (1885), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard. It takes place in Marion County, Missouri, and is ab ...

" (1885). Twain's Civil War experiences. * " Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895) * " English As She Is Taught" (1897) * "

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" (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) * "

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" (1907) * " Queen Victoria's Jubilee" (1910) * " The United States of Lyncherdom" (1923, posthumous)

Non-fiction

* '' The Innocents Abroad'' (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, following his first travel book '' The Innocents Abroad'' (1869). ''Roughing It'' is dedicated to Twain's m ...

'' (1872), travel * '' Old Times on the Mississippi'' (1876), travel * '' Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion'' (1877), travel * '' A Tramp Abroad'' (1880), travel * ''

Life on the Mississippi ''Life on the Mississippi'' is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. L ...

'' (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)

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 Ma ...

'' (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 * '' Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism'' (1879), a speech given to The Stomach Club * ''The Mammoth Cod'' (1902), bawdy humor

Autobiography and letters

* '' Mark Twain's Autobiography'' ::''Chapters from My Autobiography'' published by ''

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'' (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 (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) * '' Letters from Hawaii'' (letters written in 1866, published as a book in 1947) * ''Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880'' (2010, posthumous) * ''The Selected Letters of Mark Twain'', Charles Neider, ed. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1982) * " ''Territorial Enterprise'' letters" being compiled for release in 2017. * ''Mark Twain: San Francisco Virginia City Territorial Enterprise Correspondent: Selections from his Letters to the Territorial Enterprise, 1865-1866''. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1957. * ''Mark Twain's West''. Edited by Walter Blair. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1983.

References

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