Those Extraordinary Twins was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twains The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson. As Twain explains, he extricated...

A river memoir documenting Twains early days as an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. Reminiscing about his happy experiences as a...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell,...

A good candidate for the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain would be The Treaty With China, which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an...

In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to...

Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adams life from happiness in the GARDEN-OF-EDEN to their fall from...

...if I should talk to a stenographer two hours a day for a hundred years, I should still never be able to set down a tenth part of the things which have interested me in my...

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains The Jumping Frog in the original English, followed by a French translation...

Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us and A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget. (Summary by John...

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)