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• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at mtpo2.org)
• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at mtpo2.org)
• Mark Twain's Letters, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Mark Twain as Critic (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sydney J. Krause (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Joe B. Fulton (PDF files at Ohio State)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain Journal (partial serial archives)
• Mark Twain Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life on the Mississippi (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Luotsina Mississippi-Joella: Humoristinen Kertomus (Finnish translation of part of "Life on the Mississippi"; Hämeenlinna: A. A. Karisto, 1913), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Teacher's Guide (a Big Read guide; Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, ca. 2008), by Michael Palma (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Kings of the Platform and Pulpit (Chicago et al.: The Werner Co., 1896), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• Fact Into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Herbert L. Sussman (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Nietzsche and Art (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by Anthony M. Ludovici
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at anthonymludovici.com
• Nietzsche and Art (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1912), by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)
• Asthetik des Hässlichen (in German; Konigsberg: Bornträger, 1853), by Karl Rosenkranz (page images in Germany)

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

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