Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

From Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, to Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, and The Prince and the Pauper, this CD contains 50 books by and about Mark Twain.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are organized for easy access. Individual books are in plain text format. You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor. In addition, the same books are also provided in a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links.

Table of Contents

As a single multi-book file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links
As individual books in plain text format

• 1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (story)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The $30,000 Bequest
• A Dog's Tale
• Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
• A Cure for the Blues
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• The Californian's Tale
• A Helpless Situation
• A Telephonic Conversation
• Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
• The Five Boons of Life
• The First Writing-machines
• Italian without a Master
• Italian with Grammar
• A Burlesque Biography
• How to Tell a Story
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
• An Entertaining Article
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• Amended Obituaries
• A Monument to Adam
• A Humane Word from Satan
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• Advice to Little Girls
• Post-mortem Poetry
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Portrait of King William III
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• Eve's Diary
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• The Grateful Poodle
• The Benevolent Author
• The Grateful Husband
• Punch, Brothers, Puch
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Canvasser's Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer
• Paris Notes
• Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
• Speech on the Babies
• Speech on the Weather
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• The American Claimant
• The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (story)
• Christian Science
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
• The Curious Republic of Gondour
• A Memory
• Introductory to "Memoranda"
• About Smelt
• A Couple of Sad Experiences
• Dan Murphy
• The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
• Curious Relic for Sale
• A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
• A Royal Compliment
• The Approaching Epidemic
• The Tone-Imparting Committee
• Our Precious Lunatic
• The European War
• The Wild Man Interviewed
• Last Words of Great Men
• A Dog's Tale (story)
• A Double Barrelled Detective (story)
• Editorial Wild Oats (article)
• Essays on Paul Bourget
• Extract's from Adam's Diary (story)
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (story)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (essay)
• Following the Equator
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again (story)
• A Horse's Tale (story)
• How to Tell a Story and Others (stories and essays)
• How to Tell a Story
• The Wounded Soldier
• The Golden Arm
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• The Invalid's Story
• In Defence of Harriet Shelley (essay)
• The Innocents Abroad
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
• The Exquimaux Maiden's Romance
• Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Debut as a Literary Person
• At the Appetite-Cure
• Concerning the Jews
• From the 'London Times' of 1904
• About Play-Acting
• Travelling with a Reformer
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• Luck
• The Captain's Story
• Stirring Times in Austria
• Meisterschaft
• My Boyhood Dreams
• To the Above Old People
• In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
• The Mysterious Stranger (stories)
• The Mysterious Stranger
• A Fable
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 1)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 2)
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Rambling Idle Excursion (story)
• Roughing It
• Sketches New and Old
• My Watch
• Political Economy
• The Jumping Frog
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy
• The Story of the Good Little Boy
• A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
• Niagara
• Answers to Correspondents
• To Raise Poultry
• Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• My First Literary Venture
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• The Office Bore
• Johnny Greer
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Case of George Fisher
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• The Judges "Spirited Woman"
• Information Wanted
• Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• A Fashion Item
• Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
• A Fine Old Man
• Science vs. Luck
• The Late Benjamin Franklin
• Mr. Bloke's Item
• A Medieval Romance
• Petition Concerning Copyright
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionizing Murderers
• A New Crime
• A Curious Dream
• A True Story
• The Siamese Twins
• Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
• A Ghost Story
• The Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• The Undertaker's Chat
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• "After" Jenkins
• About Barbers
• "Party Cries" in Ireland
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
• History Repeats Itself
• Honored as a Curiosity
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• The Widow's Protext
• The Scriptural Panoramist
• Curing a Cold
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Running for Governor
• A Mysterious Visit
• Speeches
• The Stolen White Elephant (story)
• Those Extraordinary Twins (story)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (story)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (story)
• A Tramp Abroad
• What Is Man? And Other Essays
• What Is Man?
• The Death of Jean
• The Turning-Point of My Life
• How to Make History Dates Stick
• The Memorable Assassination
• A Scrap of Curious History
• Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner
• William Dean Howells
• English as She is Taught
• A Simplified Alphabet
• As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
• Concerning Tobacco
• Taming the Bicycle
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• books about Mark Twain
• Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
• by Mark Twain about Mark Twain
• A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain

Chapters from my Autobiography (from North American Review Sept. 7, 1906)