Author:Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910)

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

Contents 1 Collected Works 2 Works 2.1 Short Stories 2.2 Plays 2.3 Letters 2.4 Essays 2.5 Speeches 2.6 Unpublished manuscripts 3 Works about Twain 3.1 Newspaper accounts 3.2 Obituaries 4 Transcription projects 5 On Wikilivres

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 and Other Sketches (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)
• 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 (1885)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• Screamers, 1871

[edit] 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"

[edit] Plays

• Meisterschaft: In Three Acts

[edit] Letters

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

[edit] Essays

• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (1895)
• Stirring Times in Austria (1898)
• Concerning the Jews (1898)
• Comments on the Moro Massacre (1906)
• Taming the Bicycle

[edit] Speeches

• Speech at St. Timothy's School (9 June 1909)

[edit] Unpublished manuscripts

• The War Prayer

[edit] Works about Twain

[edit] 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
• April 4, 1909 Mark Twain at railroad feast

[edit] Obituaries

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

[edit] Transcription projects

• Index:Sketches by Mark Twain.djvu (1879)
• Index:Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.djvu (1896)
• Index:In defense of Harriet Shelley, and other essays.djvu (1918)
• Index:Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field.djvu (1922)

[edit] On Wikilivres

Public domain in Canada

• Letters from the Earth (1909, published in 1962)
• The United States of Lyncherdom (1901, published in redacted form in 1923, in full in 2000)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1910, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.