Mark Twain Bibliography

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Mark Twain bibliography

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21,
1910),⁣[1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an
American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called
the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (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)[N 1]
The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
The American Claimant (1892) Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
A Horse's Tale (1907)
The Mysterious Stranger (1916, posthumous)
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
3. Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
4. Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
5. "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians" (c. 1884, 9 chapters, unfinished)
6. "Huck Finn" (c. 1897, fragment)
7. "Schoolhouse Hill" (in The Mysterious Stranger) (c. 1898, 6 chapters, unfinished)
8. "Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy" (c. 1899, 10 chapters, unfinished)
9. "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), LCCN 31-27192 (https://lccn.loc.gov/31027192)[2] –
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posthumous issue of the 1904 and 1906 works bound as one, as Twain had requested in a
recently discovered letter[3]
Short stories
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
"General Washington's Negro Body-Servant" (1868)[4]
"Cannibalism in the Cars" (1868)
"A Medieval Romance" [1868] (unfinished)[5]
"My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (1868)[6]
Mark Twain vs Blondin [1869 satire letter]][7]
"A Ghost Story" (1870)[8]: 176–180
"A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It" (1874)[8]: 70–73
"Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls" (1875)[8]: 77–83
"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)[8]: 135–?
"The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (1879)[9]
"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" (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)[8]: 226–238
"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)
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" (1909)
"My Platonic Sweetheart" (1912, posthumous)
"The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine"[10] (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 (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),[11] 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
Memoranda (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 (1962, posthumous)
A Pen Warmed Up In Hell (1972, posthumous)[12]
The Bible According to Mark Twain (1996, posthumous)[13]
Essays
"Advice to 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" (1885). Twain's Civil War experiences.[14][15]
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)
"English As She Is Taught" (1897)
"Concerning the Jews" (1898)
"My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It" (1899)[16]
"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" (1923, posthumous)
Non-fiction
The Innocents Abroad (1869), travel
Roughing It (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 (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)
Letters from Hawaii (letters written in 1866, published as a book in 1947)
Other writings
Is He Dead? (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[N 2]
Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism (1879), a speech given to The Stomach Club
The Mammoth Cod (1902), bawdy humor[17]
Autobiography and letters

Mark Twain's Autobiography
Chapters from My Autobiography published by North American Review (1906–1907)[18]

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)
Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880 (2010, posthumous)[19]

The Selected Letters of Mark Twain, Charles Neider, ed. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers
(1982)
"Territorial Enterprise letters" being compiled for release in 2017.[20]
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.
References
Notes
1. This novel was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner.

2. This is a translation of the popular German children's book Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich
Hoffmann.
Citations
1. "The Mark Twain House Biography" (https://web.archive.org/web/20061016074753/http://www.

marktwainhouse.org/theman/bio.shtml). Archived from the original (http://www.marktwainhous
e.org/theman/bio.shtml) on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
2. The private life of Adam and Eve: being extracts from their diaries (https://books.google.com/b
ooks?id=-2laAAAAMAAJ). Harper. 1931. ISBN 9780598784322 – via Google Books.
3. The Hartford Courant, August 2, 1931, p. 6. Chicago Tribune (August 6) and New York Times
(August 9) reviews quote Twain's short note.
The note from Twain is reproduced, in his own handwriting apparently, on the second printed
page of the book (viewed at HathiTrust, catalog record 000664332).
4. "Short Stories: General Washington's Negro Body-Servant by Mark Twain" (http://www.eastofth
eweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/GeneWash.shtml). www.eastoftheweb.com.
5. Free Library Mark Twain (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mark+Twain's+cross-dressing+oeuvr
e.-a020378695)
6. Twain, Mark (12 November 1868). "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=nrwMMQEACAAJ) – via Google Books.
7. America Heritage August 1958 (https://www.americanheritage.com/mark-twain-vs-blondin)
8. Twain, Mark (2010). The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain. Digireads.com.
ISBN 9781420936179.
9. "The Great Revolution In Pitcairn by Mark Twain" (http://www.online-literature.com/twain/326
9/). www.online-literature.com.
10. "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine" (http://www.vowelor.com/book/purloining-prince-oleo
margarine-mark-twain-review/) by Mark Twain, Philip C. Stead, DoubleDay Books
11. Mark Twain's Fables of Man (https://archive.org/details/fablesofman0000twai) (1972). Edited
by John S. Tuckey. Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-02039-1.
12. A Pen Warmed Up In Hell: Mark Twain in Protest (1972). Edited by Frederick Anderson. New
York: Harper & Row, ISBN 0060906782.
13. The Bible According to Mark Twain (1996). Edited by McCullough and Baetzhold. New York:
Simon & Schuster Ltd, ISBN 0684824396.
14. Twain, Mark (1885). "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (https://archive.org/detail
s/centuryillustratv31newy/page/n205). The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 31 (2): 193–
204.
15. Griffin, Benjamin, ed. (2019). Mark Twain's Civil War. Berkeley, California: The Bancroft
Library, University of California.
16. "IPT Journal - "My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It" " (http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/vol
ume1/j1_3_6.htm#en0). www.ipt-forensics.com.
17. Twain, Mark, The Mammoth Cod and Address to the Stomach Club with an introduction by G.
Legman, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Maledicta, Inc., 1976.
18. "Mark Twain's own autobiography: the chapters from the North American review" (https://book
s.google.com/books?id=ZehUN4w4ZxwC&q=mark+twain's+autobiography), Google Books.
Retrieved 2010-05-27.
19. Twain, Mark (2010). "Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880" (http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/se
arch?category=letters;rmode=landing_letters;style=mtp). Retrieved 19 October 2011.
20. Tori James (May 7, 2015). " 'New' Mark Twain Tale Depicts Mother Lode Miners" (https://www.
mymotherlode.com/news/local/239361/new-mark-twain-tale-depicts-mother-lode-miners.html).
My Mother Lode. Clarke Broadcasting Corporation.
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