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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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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.
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Life on the Mississippi (1883)
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John Harley
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Life on the Mississippi (1927)
Mark Twain’s account of his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
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.
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Mark Twain
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Anonymous
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.
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Mark Twain
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Anonymous
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.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
True W. Williams
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.
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Mark Twain
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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.
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Number One: Mark Twain’s Sketches (1874)
Thirteen tales and sketches.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
R. T. Sperry
Old Times on the Mississippi (1876)
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Mark Twain
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Unknown
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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Frank Vincent Du Mond
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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.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
John Harley
L. S. Ipsen
Frank T. Merrill
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
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.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
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.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
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.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Lester Ralph
F. Strothmann
Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale (1894)
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
James Mapes Dodge
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.
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Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
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.
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Mark Twain
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Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches (1878)
Nine stories and essays. Read online at Hathitrust.
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