Mark Twain: bibliography and biography
American · 1835–1910
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a Missouri riverboat pilot turned journalist and novelist. The name itself is a riverboat term, a leadsman's call meaning two fathoms of water.
His fiction mixed frontier humor with social criticism of slavery, religion and class, written in American vernacular speech at a time when literary English still leaned on formal, British models.
Works
- The Innocents Abroad1869
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer1876
- The Prince and the Pauper1881
- Life on the Mississippi1883
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1885
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court1889
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Where this comes from
How many books did Mark Twain write?
This page lists 6 works by Mark Twain, spanning 1869 to 1889 — not necessarily a complete catalogue, since minor works, letters and uncollected pieces are left out, but enough to cover the titles readers search for most.
Is Mark Twain's work in the public domain?
Mark Twain died in 1910, long past the life-plus-70-years copyright term most countries apply, which is why the full text circulates freely through archives such as Project Gutenberg.
Where should you start reading Mark Twain?
The Innocents Abroad (1869) is usually the first recommendation for readers new to Mark Twain, and from there the 6-title list above follows roughly the order the books were written — often a more useful reading order than any ranking.
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Public domain
A work whose copyright term has expired — commonly life plus 70 years after the author's death — and so can be freely copied and republished.
Bibliography
An organized list of an author's published works, usually with each one's publication year.
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