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Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(1835 - 1910)
Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “the Great American Novel.”
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The Children’s Hour Volume 11 (1953)
A collection of stories about the pioneers in America.
Read online at archive.org.
The Children’s Hour Volume 3 (1953)
Longer selections from classic novels.
Read online at archive.org.
Christian Science (1907)
A combination of a humorous send-up and a more serious critique of the cult of Mary Baker Eddy. Read online at Hathitrust.
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Mark Twain
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Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 10 (1962)
Eighteen selections from classic novels.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 8 (1962)
Twenty-one brief biographies, chiefly of Americans.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
A savage satire of popular tales of chivalry marred by Twain’s stubborn atheism. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Dan Beard
A Dog’s Tale (1904)
The story of a pet dog who is cruelly mistreated by her master who subsequently kills her puppy in a scientific “experiment.” Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
W. T. Smedley
A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902)
A burlesque on the Sherlock Holmes craze. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
English as She Is Taught (1900)
This is a reprint of a review of English as She Is Taught by Caroline B. Le Row, first published in 1887. Twain’s work first appeared in England in 1887. Read online at archive.org.
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Mark Twain
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None
Eve’s Diary: Translated from the Original MS (1906)
This fictional account of life in the Garden of Eden and afterward is not as cynical as Twain’s other writings on the subject. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Lester Ralph
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909)
A satirical look at the afterlife. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Albert Levering
Extracts from Adam’s Diary Translated from the Original MS (1904)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
F. Strothmann
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (1897)
A steamship journey from Vancouver to Cape Town with intermediate stops in Australia, India, The Fijis, New Zealand, Mauritius and Ceylon. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Dan Beard
A. B. Frost
Peter Newell
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day (1874)
This co-written novel of land speculators and corrupt politicians gave its name to the post Civil War era in America. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Charles Dudley Warner
Illustrator(s):
Augustus Hoppin
Alice Barber Stephens
True W. Williams
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Golden Tales of the Far West (1935)
A collection of short stories by western writers or on western themes.
Author(s):
Bret Harte
Jack London
Mark Twain
Stewart Edward White
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Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
A Horse’s Tale (1907)
Twain could do sentiment - and bathos - none better, as he shows here. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897)
A collection of eight essays, including Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
None
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1900)
This is Volume XXII of the Works. It includes sixteen essays, one of which is a biographical sketch by the author’s nephew. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Samuel Erasmus Moffett
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
W. H. W. Bicknell
Peter Newell
Photographs
C. D. Weldon
The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Progress (1869)
Originally written as letters to American newspapers, this travelogue includes a large dollop of satire on the Americans abroad and the Europeans who engaged to fleece them. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography (1909)
Twain here points out the surprising lack of evidence that the man Shakespeare actually wrote the plays that were published under his name. He favors the Bacon hypothesis rather than the Oxford. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
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