Author:Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1835–1910)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Works

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.

• Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (1871)
• Sketches New and Old (1875)
• Sketches by Mark Twain (1879)
• Merry Tales (1892)
• The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (1893)
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900) (transcription project)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906)
• In defense of Harriet Shelley, and other essays (1918)
• The Curious Republic of Gondour (1919)
• Mark Twain's Speeches
  • Harpers & Brothers, 1910 ed. (external scan)
  • Harpers & Brothers, 1923 ed. (external scan)

Fiction

• The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day (1873), co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) (transcription project)
• The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
• Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians (1884?, unfinished)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
• The American Claimant (1892)
• The Mysterious Stranger
• Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
• Those Extraordinary Twins (c. 1899), sharing many plot elements and often pub. together with Puddn'head Wilson
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
• Letters from the Earth (1909, published in 1962)

Short stories

• 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (1880)
• Advice to Little Girls
• Amended Obituaries
• A Burlesque Biography
• The Californian's Tale
• The Canvasser's Tale (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1876)
• A Cure for the Blues
• A Curious Dream (1879)
• A Curious Experience
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• A Dog's Tale
• A Double Barreled Detective Story (1902)
• Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer (1874)
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• An Entertaining Article
• Eve's Diary
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909)
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
• The First Writing-machines
• The Five Boons of Life
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• A Ghost Story
• Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn (1879)
• A Helpless Situation
• "A Horse's Tale," Harper's Magazine, Aug–Sep 1906
• 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
• Little Bessie
• Little Nelly Tells a Story Out of Her Own Head
• The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton (1878)
• Luck
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
• 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
• Punch, Brothers, Punch
• Sketches New and Old (1875) [1]
• The Stolen White Elephant (1882)
• A Telephonic Conversation
• The $30,000 Bequest (1906)
• 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
• The Letters of Mark Twain, 1853-1910 (in six volumes)

Essays

• Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story
• Running for Governor (1870)
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying (1880)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (1895)
• The Lowest Animal (1896)
• Stirring Times in Austria (1898)
• Concerning the Jews (1898)
• Comments on the Moro Massacre (1906)
• Carl Schurz, Pilot (1906)
• Christian Science (1907)
• Taming the Bicycle
• The Overland Monthly/Volume 1/By Rail through France
• Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
• The Wounded Soldier
• The Golden Arm
• Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy (Cosmopolitan, N. Y., 1899, xxvi, 585-594) (external scan)
• In Defense of Harriet Shelley
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
• Traveling with a Reformer
• Mental Telegraphy
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us
• A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget
• The Invalid's Story
• Stirring Times in Austria
• The German Chicago
• About All Kinds of Ships
• From the "London Times" of 1904
• A Majestic Literary Fossil
• At the Appetite Cure (August 1898)
• Saint Joan of Arc
• A Biographical Sketch

Speeches

• Americans and the English (1872)
• Speech On The Babies, At the Banquet, in Chicago, Given by the Army of the Tennessee to their First Commander, General U. S. Grant, November, 1879
• Speech on Marcus Clarke during Australian lecture tour (October 1895)
• Speech at St. Timothy's School (9 June 1909)
• Speech on the Weather

Poetry

• In Memoriam - Olivia Susan Clemens

Unsorted

• 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 Vandal Abroad (November 1868)
• The Innocents Abroad (1869)
• The Curious Republic of Gondour (transcription project)
• 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
• Accident Insurance -- Etc. (12 October 1874)
• A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874)
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature (May 1878)
• A Tramp Abroad (1880)
• The Awful German Language (1880)
• Life on the Mississippi (1883)
• Archimedes (27 July 1889)
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner (06 December 1891)
• Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893)
• Following the Equator (1897)
• At the Appetite Cure (August 1898)
• The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again (August 1898)
• Authors Club (12 June 1899)
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays (1900) (transcription project)
• 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)

• A Fable
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• The Mcwilliamses And The Burglar Alarm

• Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)
• Amended Obituaries
• Mark Twain's Library of Humor (as editor)
• How to Tell a Story
• A Curious Experience
• More Tramps Abroad
• Paris Notes
• Legend Of Sagenfeld, In Germany
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It
• The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Debut as a Literary Person
• About Play-acting
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• The Captain's Story
• My Boyhood Dreams
• To The Above Old People
• A Memory
• Introductory to "Memoranda"
• About Smells
• A Couple of Sad Experiences
• Dan Murphy
• The "Tournament" In A.D. 1870
• Curious Relic for Sale
• A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements
• A Royal Compliment
• The Tone-Imparting Committee
• Our Precious Lunatic
• The European War
• The Wild Man Interviewed
• Last Words of Great Men
• The Recent French Duel
• Story of the Bad Little Boy
• Story of the Good Little Boy
• The Experiences of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• Some Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls — Part First
• Some Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls — Part Second
• Some Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls — Part Third
• The Jumping Frog
• My Watch — An Instructive Little Tale
• Political Economy
• Journalism in Tennessee
• Two Poems — By Moore and Twain
• To Raise Poultry
• My First Literary Adventure
• The Facts in the Case of George Fisher, Deceased
• The Judge's “Spirited Woman”
• The Facts Concerning the Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• Riley — Newspaper Correspondent
• Science vs. Luck
• The Killing of Julius Cæsar “Localized”
• An Item which the Editor himself could not understand
• A Mediæval Romance
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionising Murderers
• A New Crime
• Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins
• Speech at the Scottish Banquet at London
• Legend of the Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I once Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• Concerning Chambermaids
• History Repeats Itself
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• A Visit to Niagara

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
• "Mark Twain and the Art of Writing" in Harper's Magazine, October 1920, by Brander Matthews
• Mark Twain, in The American Novel (1921), by Carl Van Doren

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
• Mark Twain Called by Death

Encyclopedias

• "Clemens, Samuel Langhorne," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Clemens, Samuel Langhorne," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Clemens, Samuel Langhorne," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Twain, Mark," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Clemens, Samuel Langhorne," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Clemens, Samuel Langhorne," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Clemens, Samuel Langhorne," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

See also

• Mark Twain Bibliography