Series:

Mark Twain

10 primary works • 12 total works

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Cover of Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
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The American Claimant

by Mark Twain

Published 1 December 1981
"The American Claimant is enormous fun. I'm here to celebrate the mad energy of this strange novel. In it we have the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's imagination go berserk," writes Bobbie Ann Mason in her charming introduction to this novel. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches -- fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory -- all revolving around the serious debate between the hereditary aristocracy of Europe and the democracy of America. The central character, Colonel Mulberry Sellers, is an effusive and buoyant mad scientist, brimming with energy and hare-brained ideas, whose voluble wackiness leaves the reader reeling in the wake of inventions that prefigure DNA cloning, fax machines, and photocopiers, and which include a Cursing Phonograph that stores up the profanity necessary for use with sailors at sea. At the same time, Twain delves deeply into issues of constructing self and identity, and into the moral and social questions raised by the increasing capitalism and industrialism of the United States. The American Claimant stands at a juncture between science fiction and fantasy, romance, farce, and political satire.
It touches on the themes at the very centre of American identity and of Twain's own relationship to American society, woven together in the colourful crazy quilt that is Twain's writing: a brilliant tapestry of free-wheeling American idiom, standard English, and the stuffy utterances of English earls. As Twain himself said while writing The American Claimant, "I think it will simply howl with fun. I wake up in the night laughing".

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Tom Sawyer, Detective

by Mark Twain

Published 1 February 1984
Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts - even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. - M. T.

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Sketches New and Old

by Mark Twain

Published 1 November 2002
The Jumping Frog
The Story of the Good Little Boy
Niagara
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"
A Fashion Item
Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
A Fine Old Man
The Late Benjamin Franklin
A Curious Dream
A True Story
The Siamese Twins
Speech at the 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 Protest
The Scriptual Panoramist
Curing a Cold

and many more

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Cover of The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1

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Cover of The Mysterious Stranger & Other Stories (Large Print Edition)
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Cover of Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again, How Tell a Story and Others, In Defence of Harriet Shelley, Is Shakespeare Dead

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Cover of Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival Of Crime In Connecticut, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Stolen White Elephant, The Treaty With China

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Cover of Editorial Wild Oats, Essays on Paul Bourget, Eve's Diary, Complete, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

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Cover of A Dog's Tale, A Double Barrelled Detective Story, A Horse's Tale, Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Cover of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress.

A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America’s greatest writers could pen.

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How to Tell a Story

by Mark Twain

Published 1 December 1981