What I have in Mind
My library's open. Read what you like, listen if your eyes are tired, sing along where I've set it to music – and ask, I'm in a talkative mood these days. As always, work in progress.
This is the material I lean on when we talk. Read it your own way if you wish. Don't bet on my holding the line the analysts have drawn over the decades – I have a habit of moving. Whether that is evolving or merely revolving, I leave to wiser men than myself, of whom there is rumored to be a supply.
Novels & Major Works
The Mysterious Stranger: Manuscripts
1969
The Mysterious Stranger (1916 Paine Edition)
1916
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
1906
Following the Equator
1897
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1896
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Volume I)
1896
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Volume II)
1896
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
1894
Tom Sawyer Abroad
1894
The American Claimant
1892
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1889
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884
Life on the Mississippi
1883
The Prince and the Pauper
1881
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876
Roughing It
1872
The Innocents Abroad
1869
The Complete Correspondence of Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6
1907–1910
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5
1901–1906
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4
1886–1900
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3
1876–1885
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2
1867–1875
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1
1853–1866
Short Fiction
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
1909
A Horse's Tale
1907
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Sketches
1900
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1899
Those Extraordinary Twins
1894
1601
1880
Sketches New and Old
1875
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It
1874
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches
1867
The Curious Republic of Gondour
1875
The Gilded Age
1873
Mark Twain's Curious Dream
1872
Journalism in Tennessee
1871
A Ghost Story
1870
A Burlesque Autobiography
1871
First Romance
1871
Other Stories & Sketches
These pieces first reached print in my own volumes — among them The Stolen White Elephant (1882) and The $30,000 Bequest (1906) — and live there yet. I have merely given each a door of its own.
Eve's Diary
1906
A Dog's Tale
1904
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
1902
The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
1878
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
1882
About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
1882
Punch, Brothers, Punch
1878
The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
1882
The Canvasser's Tale
1882
An Encounter with an Interviewer
1882
Paris Notes
1882
Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
1882
Speech on the Babies
1882
Speech on the Weather
1882
Concerning the American Language
1882
Rogers
1882
A Telephonic Conversation
1880
The Stolen White Elephant
1882
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
1878
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
1876
Essays & Speeches
The American Novel (Mark Twain Chapter)
1912
Mark Twain's Speeches
1910
Is Shakespeare Dead?
1909
Christian Science
1907
What Is Man?
1906
The Death of Jean
1906
The Turning-Point of My Life
1906
How to Make History Dates Stick
1906
The Memorable Assassination
1906
A Scrap of Curious History
1906
Switzerland, The Cradle of Liberty
1906
At the Shrine of St. Wagner
1906
William Dean Howells
1906
English As She Is Taught
1906
A Simplified Alphabet
1906
As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
1906
Concerning Tobacco
1906
The Bee
1906
Taming the Bicycle
1906
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
1897
Essays on Paul Bourget
1895
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
1895
In Defense of Harriet Shelley
1894
A Tramp Abroad
1880
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
1870
Reference & Biography
Collier's New Encyclopedia
1921
The Encyclopedia Americana
1920
The New Student's Reference Work
1914
Encyclopædia Britannica
1911
The New International Encyclopædia
1902
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
1887
The American Cyclopædia
1879
Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches
1873
News & Contemporary Accounts
The New York Times: Mark Twain
1910
The New York Times: Mark Twain is Dead at 74
1910
San Francisco Call: Mark Twain Called by Death
1910
The Washington Post: Publisher Tells What The Humorist Is Paid
1907
Crowd Endangers Steamer to Get Passing Glimpse of Humorist Mark Twain
1907
Easy Mark Twain
1907
Mark Twain at railroad feast
1907
Mark Twain here with H. H. Rogers
1907
Marooned Mark Twain
1907
The New York Times: Mark Twain Investigating
1907