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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King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)
A satirical defense of the Belgian king’s exploitation of the Congo Free State, notoriously the subject of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A supplement was added to make the second edition. Read online at archive.org.
Life on the Mississippi (1883)
The author reminisces about his years as a Mississippi River pilot before the Civil War, then brings things up-to-date on a trip down river in the 1880’s. The first part was originally published as Old Times on the Mississippi in 1876. Read online at archive.org.
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Life on the Mississippi (1927)
Mark Twain’s account of his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
Walter Stewart
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)
A collection of fifteen stories and essays. Read online at archive.org.
Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (1871)
Two stories, neither of which is autobiographical. The author later bought up the plates and destroyed them. Read online at archive.org.
Mark Twain’s Sketches: New and Old (1875)
Sixty-six pieces, many of which were previously published from the author’s periodical journalism. Read online at archive.org.
Merry Tales (1892)
Seven essays and stories previously published in magazines. The second issue has the frontispiece photo of the author. Read online at archive.org.
My Debut as a Literary Person (1903)
Fourteen stories and essays originally published as volume XXIII in the author’s complete works. Read online at archive.org.
Number One: Mark Twain’s Sketches (1874)
Thirteen tales and sketches.
Old Times on the Mississippi (1876)
Twain’s memories of his prewar time spent as an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi River. It later was used as the first part of Life on the Mississippi. Includes an additional story: A Literary Nightmare. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org. Or this edition at Archive.org, entitled The Mississippi Pilot.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
One of the first attempts in English to tell the whole story of La Pucelle, the Maid of France. Read online at archive.org.
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The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.
L. S. Ipsen
Frank T. Merrill
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
When Edward Tudor changes places with poor Tom Canty, he never recks how difficult it will be to regain his place as Prince of Wales. This is the New Winston Treasure Shelf edition. It is larger-format on better paper, with new endpapers and different colors to the two-color illustrations.
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark, but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again. This is the Children's Bookshelf edition.
The Prince and the Pauper (1954)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again.
The Private Life of Adam and Eve: Being Extracts from Their Diaries (1931)
An omnibus edition of Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1904 edition) and Eve’s Diary.
F. Strothmann
Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale (1894)
A slave woman switches her son for the son of her master. Is it nature or nurture that forms character? This first British edition does not include The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, published in the first American edition. Read online at Hathitrust.
Louis Loeb
Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894 (1893)
This little pocket calendar was printed as a promotional piece by The Century magazine which ran The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson as a serial. Read online here.
Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1897 (1896)
This is a reissue of the little pocket calendar originally printed in 1893 (for 1894) as a promotional piece by The Century magazine which ran The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson as a serial.
Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches (1878)
Nine stories and essays. Read online at Hathitrust.