Mark Twain: The Complete Works

By Mark Twain

50 Complete Works of Mark Twain



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A Burlesque Autobiography
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Dog's Tale
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
A Horse's Tale
A Tramp Abroad
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Chapters from My Autobiography
Christian Science
Editorial Wild Oats
Eve's Diary
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Extracts From Adam's Diary
Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Following the Equator
Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again
How to Tell a Story and other Essays
Is Shakespeare Dead
Life On The Mississippi
Lords of the Housetops
Mark Twain's Speeches
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Roughing It
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, vol 1
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, vol 2
Sketches New and Old
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
THE $30,000 BEQUEST and Other Stories
The American Claimant
The Gilded Age
The Innocents Abroad
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
The Prince and The Pauper
The Stolen White Elephant
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Those Extraordinary Twins
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom Sawyer Detective
Twain's Letters vol 1 1835-1866
Twain's Letters vol 2 1867-1875
Twain's Letters vol 3 1876-1885
Twain's Letters vol 4 1886-1900
Twain's Letters vol 5 1901-1906
Twain's Letters vol 6 1907-1910
What Is Man And Other Essays

• Language: English
• Publisher: JustinH
• Release date: Apr 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9788832579598

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.