Author:Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1835–1910)

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.

• Sketches by Mark Twain (1879)

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 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) (transcription project)
• 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)
  • 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

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)
• 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

• Advice to Little Girls
• Amended Obituaries
• A Burlesque Biography
• The Californian's Tale
• 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
• Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
• 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 First Writing-machines
• The Five Boons of Life
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• A Ghost Story
• 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
• 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]
• 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

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)
• Christian Science (1907)
• Taming the Bicycle
• The Overland Monthly/Volume 1/By Rail through France

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
• "Mark Twain and the Art of Writing" in Harper's Magazine, October 1920, by Brander Matthews

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
• San Francisco Call/1910/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