Author of Audiobooks - Mark Twain
Anti-imperialist Writings - Mark Twain
Anti-imperialist Writings - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Satire / Literary Collections
This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)...
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)...
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from throughout his career, in an effort...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2) - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Erotica / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as "1601", this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. (Summary by John Greenman &...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Please note: this recording contains strong language. "1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)...
A Horse's Tale (Version 2) - Mark Twain
A Horse's Tale (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a fanciful mix of points of view, we hear...
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories - Mark Twain
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book....
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Literary Collections / Writing & Linguistics
This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to the...
Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Literary Collections
This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he began using the pen name Mark Twain. This compilation is the work of Project Gutenberg and contains articles...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...
Roughing It - Mark Twain
Roughing It - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his...
Sketches New and Old - Mark Twain
Sketches New and Old - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
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 (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into...
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the...
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com, consist of works printed in the Muscatine Journal,...
Eve’s Diary - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world...
The Innocents Abroad (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book....
The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain
The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. The freshness, wonder and excitement of exploring a new world permeates Eve's thoughts as she takes great joy...
Extracts from Adam's Diary - Mark Twain
Extracts from Adam's Diary - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn how Eve caught the infant Cain,...
A Double Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
A Double Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner,...
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Nature / Modern (19th C)
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)...
Essays on Paul Bourget - Mark Twain
Essays on Paul Bourget - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
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 Greenman)...
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Travel & Geography / Letters
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that...
Old Times on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Old Times on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as chapters 4 through 17 in Twain's later work, Life on...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels...
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897.Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary"...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / *Non-fiction
Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their wive's challenge and...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction
In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting. – Although first drafted in the...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and...
Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews - Mark Twain
Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Modern (19th C)
This collection of the 258 known, publicly-printed interviews of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Gary Scharnhorst and published by the University of Alabama Press. The interviews are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to...
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, and finishes with a trip that proves life-changing. - Summary by Claudia Salto...
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays in Volume 1, many first appeared alone, in magazines or newspapers, before being printed as chapters of his...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental misplacement, his short-lived...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into...
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The Benevolent Author The Grateful Husband Punch,...
Chapters from my Autobiography - Mark Twain
Chapters from my Autobiography - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th...
The Treaty with China - Mark Twain
The Treaty with China - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"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 early statement of Twain's opposition to imperialism and which...
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is written in the style of a diary kept...
The American Claimant - Mark Twain
The American Claimant - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, "all men are created equal" America. Twain wrote the...