{{Short description|About the works of Mark Twain}} [[File:Mark Twain life 1900s.jpg|thumb|Mark Twain]]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marktwainhouse.org/theman/bio.shtml |title=The Mark Twain House Biography |access-date=2006-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016074753/http://www.marktwainhouse.org/theman/bio.shtml |archive-date=2006-10-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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){{#tag:ref|This novel was co-authored with [[Charles Dudley Warner]].|group=N}} * ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' (1881) * ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' (1889) * ''[[The American Claimant]]'' (1892) * ''[[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== # ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' (1876) # ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884) # ''[[Tom Sawyer Abroad]]'' (1894) # ''[[Tom Sawyer, Detective]]'' (1896) # "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians" (c. 1884, 9 chapters, unfinished) # "Huck Finn" (c. 1897, fragment) # "[[Schoolhouse Hill]]" (in [[The Mysterious Stranger]]) (c. 1898, 6 chapters, unfinished) # "Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy" (c. 1899, 10 chapters, unfinished) # "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|31027192}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2laAAAAMAAJ|title=The private life of Adam and Eve: being extracts from their diaries|date=1931|publisher=Harper|isbn=9780598784322 |via=Google Books}}</ref> – posthumous issue of the 1904 and 1906 works bound as one, as Twain had requested in a recently discovered letter<ref>''The Hartford Courant'', August 2, 1931, p. 6. ''Chicago Tribune'' (August 6) and ''New York Times'' (August 9) reviews quote Twain's short note. <br/> 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).</ref>
==Short stories== * "[[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]]" (1865) * "[[General Washington's Negro Body-Servant]]" (1868)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/GeneWash.shtml|title=Short Stories: General Washington's Negro Body-Servant by Mark Twain|website=www.eastoftheweb.com}}</ref> * "[[Cannibalism in the Cars]]" (1868) * "A Medieval Romance" [1868] (unfinished)<ref>[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mark+Twain's+cross-dressing+oeuvre.-a020378695 Free Library Mark Twain]</ref> * "[[My Late Senatorial Secretaryship]]" (1868)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrwMMQEACAAJ|title=My Late Senatorial Secretaryship|first=Mark|last=Twain|date=12 November 1868|via=Google Books}}</ref> *Mark Twain vs Blondin [[1869 satire letter]]<ref>[https://www.americanheritage.com/mark-twain-vs-blondin America Heritage August 1958]</ref> * "A Ghost Story" (1870)<ref name=ss>{{cite book|last=Twain|first=Mark|title=The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain|date=2010|publisher=Digireads.com|isbn=9781420936179}}</ref>{{rp|176–180}} * "[[A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It]]" (1874)<ref name=ss/>{{rp|70–73}} * "[[Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls]]" (1875)<ref name=ss/>{{rp|77–83}} * "[[The Story Of The Bad Little Boy]]" (1865) * "[[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)<ref name=ss/>{{rp|135–?}} * "[[The Great Revolution in Pitcairn]]" (1879)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3269/|title=The Great Revolution In Pitcairn by Mark Twain|website=www.online-literature.com}}</ref> * "[[1601 (Mark Twain)|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 (short story)|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)<ref name=ss/>{{rp|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 (Mark Twain)|A Fable]]" (1909) * "[[Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven]]" (1909) * "[[My Platonic Sweetheart]]" (1912, posthumous) * "[[The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine]]"<ref>[http://www.vowelor.com/book/purloining-prince-oleomargarine-mark-twain-review/ "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine"] by Mark Twain, Philip C. Stead, ''DoubleDay Books''</ref> (2017, posthumous)
==Collections== ;Short story collections * ''[[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County#Short story collection|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]]'' ("Humour" for the UK edition) (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),<ref>''[https://archive.org/details/fablesofman0000twai Mark Twain's Fables of Man]'' (1972). Edited by John S. Tuckey. Berkeley: University of California Press, {{ISBN|0-520-02039-1}}.</ref> 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 (Mark Twain)|Memoranda]]'' (1870–1871), essay collection from ''[[The Galaxy (magazine)|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)<ref>''A Pen Warmed Up In Hell: Mark Twain in Protest'' (1972). Edited by Frederick Anderson. New York: Harper & Row, {{ISBN|0060906782}}.</ref> * ''[[The Bible According to Mark Twain]]'' (1996, posthumous)<ref>''The Bible According to Mark Twain'' (1996). Edited by McCullough and Baetzhold. New York: Simon & Schuster Ltd, {{ISBN|0684824396}}.</ref>
==Essays== * "[[Advice for Good 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Twain |first=Mark |date=1885 |title=The Private History of a Campaign That Failed |url=https://archive.org/details/centuryillustratv31newy/page/n205 |journal=The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=193–204}}</ref><ref>Griffin, Benjamin, ed. (2019). ''Mark Twain's Civil War''. Berkeley, California: The Bancroft Library, University of California.</ref> * "[[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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume1/j1_3_6.htm#en0|title=IPT Journal - "My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It"|website=www.ipt-forensics.com}}</ref> * "[[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? (Twain essay)|What Is Man?]]" (1906) * "[[Christian Science (essay)|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)
==Other writings== * ''[[Is He Dead?]]'' (1898), play - first published in 2003, and first performed in 2007 * ''[[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{{#tag:ref|This is a translation of the popular German children's book ''[[Der Struwwelpeter]]'' by [[Heinrich Hoffmann (author)|Heinrich Hoffmann]].|group=N}} * ''[[Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism]]'' (1879), a speech given to The Stomach Club * ''The Mammoth Cod'' (1902), bawdy humor<ref>Twain, Mark, ''The Mammoth Cod and Address to the Stomach Club'' with an introduction by [[Gershon Legman|G. Legman]], Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Maledicta, Inc., 1976.</ref>
==Autobiography and letters== * ''[[Mark Twain's Autobiography]]'' ::''Chapters from My Autobiography'' published by ''[[North American Review]]'' (1906–1907)<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mark_Twain_s_Own_Autobiography/ZehUN4w4ZxwC?hl=en "Mark Twain's own autobiography: the chapters from the North American Review"], [[Google Books]]. Retrieved 2010-05-27.</ref> ::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)
* ''[[Letters from Hawaii]]'' (letters written in 1866, published as a book in 1947)
* ''Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880'' (2010, posthumous)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/search?category=letters;rmode=landing_letters;style=mtp|title=Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880|last=Twain|first=Mark|date=2010|access-date=19 October 2011}}</ref> * ''The Selected Letters of Mark Twain'', [[Charles Neider]], ed. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1982) * "[[Mark Twain at the Territorial Enterprise|''Territorial Enterprise'' letters]]" being compiled for release in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title='New' Mark Twain Tale Depicts Mother Lode Miners |date=May 7, 2015|author=Tori James |work=myMotherLode |publisher=Clarke Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/239361/new-mark-twain-tale-depicts-mother-lode-miners.html}}</ref> * ''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. * ''Mark Twain's West''. Edited by Walter Blair. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1983.
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