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Books about Mark Twain:

• 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'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)

• 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)

Books by Mark Twain:

• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Harper edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, ca. 1917) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: 1601 (with commentary) (HTML at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: 1601 (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (multiple editions)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) (first American edition; New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1885), illust. by E. W. Kemble
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1912), illust. by E. W. Kemble
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (multiple editions)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co.; San Francisco: A. Roman and Co., 1876), illust. by True Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co., 1884) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The American Claimant (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892)
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: American Fiction (Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction v10; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: The Best American Humorous Short Stories (with a short introduction; New York: Carlton House, ca. 1922), ed. by Alexander Jessup, also contrib. by George Pope Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, and Wells Hastings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: The Best American Humorous Short Stories (with an extensive introduction; ca. 1922), ed. by Alexander Jessup, also contrib. by George Pope Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, and Wells Hastings (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (New York: C. H. Webb, 1869) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review) (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Christian Science (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Concerning the Jews (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1934) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (multiple editions)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Harper and Bros., c1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1891)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (vol. 16 of The Writings of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Brothers, c1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with 4 illustrations; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (from the authorized edition of the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., c1917)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (gift edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), illust. by Henry C. Pitz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers (in German), trans. by H. Hellwag (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Dog's Tale (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Double Barrelled Detective Story (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Editorial Wild Oats (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: English As She Is Spoke: or, A Jest in Sober Earnest (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884; with Mark Twain's introduction to another edition appended), also contrib. by José da Fonseca, Pedro Carolino, and James Millington (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Eve's Diary, illust. by Lester Ralph (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Extracts From Adam's Diary (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Extracts From Adam's Diary (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), illust. by F. Strothmann
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: Facetia Americana: Fireside Conversation; A French Crisis; Little Willie; The Old Backhouse (Louisville, KY: Privately printed for subscribers only, 1925), ed. by F. D. Vanover, also contrib. by Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley (PDF and HTML at horntip.com)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Gilded Age, also by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), also by Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Horse's Tale (London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907), illust. by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Horse's Tale (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1907), illust. by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories (based on the 1989 edited edition), ed. by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair (HTML at makrtwinproject.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Huckleberry Finn (see The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Huckleberry Finnin (Tom Sawyerin Toverin) Seikkailut (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1904), trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: In Defense of Harriet Shelley, and Other Essays (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Co., et al., 1869)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1909)
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Jenkkejä Maailmalla: Heidän Toivioretkensä Pyhälle Maalle (2 volumes in Finnish; Porvoo: WSOY, 1922), trans. by Into Konrad Inha
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Joan of Arc (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., ca. 1924) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Johanna d'Arc: Kertomus Hänen Elämästään ja Marttyrikuolemastaan (in Finnish; Porvoo; WSOY, 1910), trans. by Lilli Rainio (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Jumping Frog, in English, Then in French, Then Clawed Back Into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1903), illust. by F. Strothmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (second edition; Boston; P. R. Warren Co., 1905) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, and Other New Stories (Toronto: Musson Book Co., n.d.) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer (in Catalan), trans. by Josep Carner (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Life on the Mississippi (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883)
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1921), ed. by Carl Van Vechten, also contrib. by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Algernon Blackwood, Honoré de Balzac, Booth Tarkington, G. H. Powell, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas A. Janvier, W. H. Hudson, W. L. Alden, Peggy Bacon, and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Luotsina Mississippi-Joella: Humoristinen Kertomus (Finnish translation of part of "Life on the Mississippi"; Hämeenlinna: A. A. Karisto, 1913) (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography, and First Romance (New York: Sheldon and Company, c1871) (multiple formats at Google)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography, and First Romance (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: 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) (illustrated HTML with commentary at mtpo2.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Mark Twain's Letters, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Mark Twain's Speeches (1910) (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Merry Tales (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892), ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Moments With Mark Twain (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Mysterious Stranger (based on the 1916 Paine compilation, which includes material not by Twain; and a few other short pieces), ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance (as edited and altered by Paine; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1916), ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine, illust. by N. C. Wyeth
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Nimensä Pilannut Kaupunki (The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg in Finnish; Hämeenlinna: A. A. Karisto, 1917), trans. by V. Hämeen-Anttila (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (London: Chatto and Windus, 1896), illust. by Frank Vincent DuMond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (with additional writings on Joan of Arc by Twain and associates) (HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Prince and the Pauper
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1882), illust. by Frank T. Merrill, John J. Harley, and Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Prinssi ja Kerjäläispoika (The Prince and the Pauper in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1908), trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Roughing It
  • multiple formats at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Salapoliisijuttu Sekin y.m. Kertomuksia (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1907), trans. by Santeri Ivalo (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Sketches New and Old (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Sketches New and Old (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., ca. 1917) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, trans.: Struwwelpeter (in German, English, and French), by Heinrich Hoffmann (illustrated HTML at struwwelpeter.com)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Taivasko vai Helvetti (in Finnish; Pori: Romelius'en Kirjakaupan, 1907), trans. by Toimi Juuti (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, contrib.: Their Husbands' Wives (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, also contrib. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Abby Meguire Roach, Emery Pottle, George A. Hibbard, and Grace Ellery Channing
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: To the Person Sitting in Darkness (reprinted by the Anti-Imperialist League of New York from the North American Review, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Tom Sawyer Abroad (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Tom Sawyer, Detective (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Tom Sawyer Ilmailija (Huckleberry Finn'in Jatko) (Tom Sawyer Abroad in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1909), trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Tom Sawyer: Koulupojan Historia (in Finnish; Helsinki: K. E. Holm, 1879), trans. by Josua Weisell (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: Tom Sawyer Salapoliisina: Huck Finnin Kertomus (Tom Sawyer, Detective in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1918), trans. by Hamminki Karjalainen (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894) (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: A Tramp Abroad (Hartford: American Pub. Co.; London: Chatto and Windus, 1880)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at WikiSource
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: What is Man? (New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910: What is Man? and Other Essays (Gutenberg text)

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