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Mark Twain
{Samuel Langhorne Clemons}
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Mark Twain {the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens} was an American humorist, satirist, writer & lecturer. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things [that] you didn't do "The lack of money is the root of all evil." — Mark Twain
He is most noted for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876] & "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885],
but also for his other fiction, travel writings, and his numerous pithy quotes & sayings.
than by the ones [that] you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
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worked as a river pilot 1857-61; lived in California 1864-66
official Mark Twain™ website
Mark Twain entry at Wikipedia
Mark Twain Quotations Page at Working Minds
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Primary Works
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"The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress" [1869]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocents_Abroad
"Roughing It" [1872]
"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" [1873 novel] with Charles Dudley Warner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876]
"A Tramp Abroad" [1880]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tramp_Abroad
"The Prince and The Pauper" [1881]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_and_the_Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper (1909), a two-reel short film
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885]
"Life On The Mississippi" []
"A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
KingArthur.htm#CYIKAC
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894]
lawyer PW used fingerprint evidence in court, 8 years before Scotland Yard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudd%27nhead_Wilson
http://fiction.eserver.org/novels/puddnhead-wilson.html
"Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_Abroad
"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Recollections_of_Joan_of_Arc
"Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer,_Detective
"The Mysterious Stranger" [1916]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger
 | "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1" [Nov 2010]  Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and others publication held off at Twain's request until 100 years after his death Kindle Edition from Univ CA Press [11/2010] for $9.99 Univ CA Press hardcover [11/2010] for $20.97 book entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Autobiography of Mark Twain {Abridged}" [1917] Edited by Charles Neider This 1917 version of Twain's autobiographical ramblings was rearranged into chrono-logical order, which entirely ruins Twain's intentions (not to mention publication before the 100 years were up). Harper Perennial Classics 8x5¼ pb [1/2000] for $10.87 |
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Other Works by Mark Twain
 | "The Portable Mark Twain" [1946] Edited by Bernard DeVoto
Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [3/77] out of print/used Random House Value Publng 7x4¾ hardcover [11/85] out of print/used "The Portable Mark Twain" [2004] Edited by Tom Quirk including the complete text of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885] Penguin Classics 7¾x5¾ pb [11/2004] for $12.60 |
 | "The Oxford Mark Twain" [1996] Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Oxford Univ Press 17¾x12½ pb [11/2009] 29 volumes for $223.98 Oxford Univ Press 19¼x14¾ hardcover [12/96] 29 volumes - out of print/used each volume is introduced by a contemporary author such as Russell Banks, Roy Blount Jr., E.L. Doctorow, Nat Hentoff, Erica Jong, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Cynthia Ozick, George Plimpton, Frederick Pohl, Mordecai Richler, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sherley Anne Williams, and actor Hal Holbrook |
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Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings [1982] Edited by Guy Cardwell
Library of America hardcover [11/82] for $23.10 includes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876], "Life On The Mississippi" [1883], "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1884] & "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894] Mark Twain: Historical Romances [1994] Edited by Susan K. Harris Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/94] for $25.55 includes "The Prince and The Pauper" [1882], "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889], "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896] Mark Twain: "The Gilded Age" and Later Novels [2002] Edited by Hamlin L. Hill Library of America hardcover [1/2002] for $26.40 includes "The Gilded Age" [1873], "The American Claimant" [1892], "Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894], "Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896], "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger [1916] Mark Twain: 1869 "The Innocents Abroad" & 1872 "Roughing It" [1984] Edited by Guy Cardwell Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [1/84] for $23.10 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1852–1890 [1992] Edited by Louis J. Budd Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/92] for $29.20 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1891-1910 [1992] Edited by Louis J. Budd Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/92] for $26.40 |
 | Mark Twain: "Huck Finn", "Pudd'nhead Wilson", "No. 44, Mysterious Stranger" & Other Writings [2000] Edited by Louis J. Budd & Guy Cardwell Library of America College Editions 6¾x5 pb [8/2000] for $12.95 includes novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1884], "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894], "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" [1916], two stories, and a selection of biting essays |
 | "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain" [1987] Edited by Alex Ayres Kindle Edition from HarperCollins [5/2010] for $9.99 Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2005] for $11.19 HarperCollins 9¼x6 hardcover [9/87] out of print/many used "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: Dover Thrift Book of Quotations" [1998] Dover Publns 8x5 pb [12/98] for $2.50 [sic] "Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain" Miniature Edition [1991] Running Press 3¼x2¾ mini-hardcover [3/91] out of print/used |
 | "Letters From The Earth: Uncensored Writings" [1962] by Mark Twain, Edited by Bernard DeVoto Kindle Edition from Isabella DeCarlo [2/2009] for $6.99 Greenbook Publns 9x6 pb [6/2010] for $8.89 Harper Perennial Classics 8x5¼ pb [2/2004] for $10.07 EZreads Publns 6x9 hardcover [3/2009] for $18.24 Fawcett mass pb [1962] out of print/used Harper & Row mass pb [1962] out of print/used |
unpublished Mark Twain manuscript "A Family Sketch" sold at auction June 2010 for $242,500
Plays, Motion Pictures, Other Media
Mark Twain credits at Internet Movie Database
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"The Boys In Autumn" staged in SFO 1981 with Kirk Douglas as aged Huck & Burt Lancaster as Tom Sawyer
IMAX "Mark Twain's America in 3-D" [1998];
Famous Authors - Mark Twain (DVD - 2006) /B000ETRABO/
A&E Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventure
stageplay "Sam & Laura" by Ron Powers = www.samandlauraplay.com/
 | "Mark Twain Tonight!" [CBS-TV 1967]
one-man stage performance on video: directed by Paul Bogart; starring Hal Holbrook three runs on Broadway (1966, 1977 & 2005), the first won HH a Tony Award Kultur Video color DVD [11/99] for $26.99 Kultur Video color VHS [4/97] for $23.70 full credits at IMDb • Broadway credits at IBDb |
“Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn” feature film [2013?]
Announced 6/2011: “Super 8" star Joel Courtney is signed to play the iconic role of trouble-making orphan
Tom Sawyer, and Jake T. Austin will portray Huck; filming begins in Bulgaria this August •
latest info at IMDb
Kindle Editions
Amazon's Kindle Store
Kindle ebook reader entry at Wikipedia
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 | Works of Mark Twain for Kindle [2007]
Kindle Edition from MobileReference [7/2007] for $4.79 with "hyperlinked table of contents & footnotes"; includes author biography, 14 novels, 15 short stories, 4 short story collections, 9 essays & collections, and 8 non-fiction works |
 | "The Works of Mark Twain" for Kindle [2004] includes over 200 stories, novels, essays & speeches Kindle Edition from Packard Technologies [4/2004] for $4.76 |
 | "Classic American Literature: 24 Books by Mark Twain" for Kindle [2008]
Kindle Edition from B&R Samizdat Express [8/2008] for $0.99 "in a single file with active table of contents"; contains ten novels: "The Gilded Age" [1873], "Tom Sawyer" [1876], "The Prince & The Pauper" [1882], "Huckleberry Finn" [1885], "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889], "The American Claimant" [1892], "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894], "Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894], "Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896]; and "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896]; 5 book-length collections of stories; 11 individual stories; six travel books & memoirs; Mark Twain's speeches and letters; and 3 book-length collections of essays |
 | "The Complete Mark Twain Collection" for Kindle [2009] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [12/2009] for $2.99 Over 300 works, "with active table of contents" |
Works About Mark Twain
"The Ordeal of Mark Twain" [192x] by Van Wyck Brooks
"Mark Twain's America" [1932] by Bernard DeVoto
"Mark Twain In Eruption" [1940] by Bernard DeVoto
"Mark Twain At Work" [1942] by Bernard DeVoto
fine bio [2003] by Justin Kaplan /0743251393/
"Mark Twain: A Life" [Free Press 2005] fine bio by Ron Powers 0743248996
fine bio [2003] by Fred Kaplan /0385477155/
docu "Beneath The Laughter" prod by Martha Jeffers 79?
McMasters' "Mark Twain Encyclopedia" [1993] /082407212X/
"Lighting Out For The Territory" [1996] by Shelley Fisher Fishkin /0195105311/
CSPAN = http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/twain.asp
"Lighting Out For The Territory" [2010] by Roy Morris, Jr. /1416598669/
"Mark Twain's Other Woman" [2010] by Laura Skandera Trombley /030727344X/
fine bio [2010] by Jerome Loving /0520252578/
"The Modern Scholar: The Life and Times of Mark Twain" [2010]
14 lectures by Prof. Michael Shelden /B00435HBKA/
Fiction Involving Mark Twain
"Scavengers" [1987] by Yvonne Montgomery = boss killed over Twain ms
"The Great Twain Robbery" [Write Way Publng 1994] by Robert R. Guntrum
desperate Henry J. Nash steals an original Mark Twain manuscript and finds himself running
from the FBI, the Army, two insurance agents, and an impassioned Twain lover
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Friends & Family
close friend Henry Rogers [1840-1909]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Rogers
close friend William Dean Howells [1837-1920]
"My Mark Twain: Reminiscences" [1910]
brother Orion Clemens [1825-97] apptd Sec'y of Nevada Terr 1861
sister Pamela Clemens Moffett [1827-1904]
brother Pleasant [1828–29]
sister Margaret [1830-39]
brother Benjamin [1832-42]
Sam Clemens was born in 1835
brother Henry Clemens [1838-58]
visionary inventor Nikola Tesla [1856-1943]
wife Olivia Langdon Clemens [1870–1904]
son Langdon Clemens [1870-71]
daughter Olivia Susan 'Susy' Clemens [1872-96]
daughter Clara Langhorne Clemens Gabrilowitsch Samossoud [1874-1962]
daughter Jane Lampton 'Jean' Clemens [1880–1909]
Hannibal [MO] C.V.B.
Mark Twain Boyhood Home [resident 1839-53] & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri
Mark Twain House [resident 1874-91] & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut
Stormfield House [resident 1900-1910] in Redding, Connecticut
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Links
official Mark Twain™ website
The Year of Mark Twain 2010
Mark Twain entry at Wikipedia
Mark Twain Quotations Page at Working Minds
Mark Twain credits at Internet Movie Database
listed #16 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
Mark Twain papers at UC Berkeley
http://www.twainquotes.com
http://www.twaintimes.net/
Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor [est. 1998]
http://www.marktwaincollector.com
PS's 'Mark twain in Cyberspace' fansite
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