Author:Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name, Mark Twain) was a famous American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer. WorldCat: Identity The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Collected Works

Several collections of Twain's works have been made over the years. No claim is being made here that any of these are definitive.

• Author:Mark Twain/Authorized Edition

Works

• The Dandy Frightening the Squatter (1852)
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract (1870)
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)
• Advice to Little Girls (1867)
• After Jenkins (1867)
• Among the Fenians (1867)
• Among the Spirits (1867)
• Answers to Correspondents (1867)
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man (1867)
• The American Claimant (1892)
• The American Vandal Abroad (November 1868)
• The Innocents Abroad (1869)
• About Smells (May 1870)
• The Approaching Epidemic (September 1870)
• Answer to an Inquiry from the Coming Man (January 1871)
• About a Remarkable Stranger (April 1871)
• About Barbers (August 1871)
• Screamers (1871)
• About London (22 September 1872)
• Roughing It (1872)
• A Book for an Hour, 187
  • Captain Ned Blakely
• After-Dinner Speech
• The Gilded Age (1873)
• Accident Insurance -- Etc. (12 October 1874)
• A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) (Three chapters only)
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature (May 1878)
• A Tramp Abroad (1880)
• The Awful German Language (1880)
• The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
• Life on the Mississippi (1883)
• Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians (1884?, unfinished)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
• Archimedes (27 July 1889)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner (06 December 1891)
• Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
• Following the Equator (1897)
• At the Appetite Cure (August 1898)
• The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again (August 1898)
• Authors Club (12 June 1899)
• Anti-Imperialist Homecoming (October 1900)
• The American Flag (1901)
• To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
• The United States of Lyncherdom (1901, published in redacted form in 1923, in full in 2000)
• Was It Heaven? Or Hell? (1902)
• A Defence of General Funston (1902)
• The War Prayer (1905)
• King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905)
• What is Man? (1906)
• Eve's Diary (1906)
• The Ascot Gold Cup (29 June 1907)
• The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (09 December 1907)
• Letters from the Earth (1909, published in 1962)
• The Mysterious Stranger
  • A Fable
  • Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
  • The Mcwilliamses And The Burglar Alarm
• Amended Obituaries
• Mark Twain's Library of Humor (as editor)
• How to Tell a Story
• A Curious Experience
• Following the Equator

Short Stories

• Advice to Little Girls
• Amended Obituaries
• A Burlesque Biography
• The Californian's Tale
• Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909) [1]
• A Cure for the Blues
• A Curious Dream
• A Curious Experience
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• A Dog's Tale
• Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• An Entertaining Article
• Eve's Diary
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• The First Writing-machines
• The Five Boons of Life
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• A Ghost Story
• A Helpless Situation
• How to Tell a Story
• A Humane Word from Satan
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• Italian with Grammar
• Italian Without a Master
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• Luck
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• A Monument to Adam
• Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
• My Platonic Sweetheart
• Playing Courier
• Portrait of King William III
• Post-mortem Poetry
• The Private History of a Campaign that Failed
• Sketches New and Old (1875) [2]
• A Telephonic Conversation
• The $30,000 Bequest
• Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
• The Million Pound Bank Note

Plays

• Meisterschaft: In Three Acts

Letters

• A Letter from Santa Claus
• Telegraph to Wife about Ulysses Grant, 1885
• Letter to Andres Carnegi, 1906

Essays

• Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (1895)
• Running for Governor (1870)
• Stirring Times in Austria (1898)
• Concerning the Jews (1898)
• Comments on the Moro Massacre (1906)
• Carl Schurz, Pilot (1906)
• Taming the Bicycle

Speeches

• Speech at St. Timothy's School (9 June 1909)
• Speech on Marcus Clarke during Australian lecture tour (October 1895)

Unpublished manuscripts

• The War Prayer

Works about Twain

• "Mark Twain" in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.

Newspaper accounts

• March 3, 1907 Mark Twain's exclusive publisher tells what the humorist is paid
• April 25, 1907 Mark Twain here with H. H. Rogers
• April 27, 1907 Crowd Endangers Steamer to Get Passing Glimpse of Humorist Mark Twain
• April 27, 1907 Easy Mark Twain
• May 1, 1907 Marooned Mark Twain
• May 5, 1907 Mark Twain Investigating, by Mark Twain
• April 4, 1909 Mark Twain at railroad feast

Obituaries

• Mark Twain is Dead at 74
• Obituary: Mark Twain

Encyclopedias

• “Twain, Mark” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.

Transcription projects

• Index:Sketches by Mark Twain.djvu (1879)
• Index:In defense of Harriet Shelley, and other essays.djvu (1918)
• Index:Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field.djvu (1922)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.