Mark Twain Forum Reviews

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Criticism
Biography
Editions
Reference
Multimedia
Children and education
Mark Twain in fiction and popular culture
Other titles of interest
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Criticism

• Alvarez, Joseph A. (ed.), Mark Twain's Geographical Imagination (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
• Anderson, Douglas, The Introspective Art of Mark Twain (Bloomsbury, 2017)
• Arac, Jonathan, Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)
• Berkove, Lawrence I. and Joseph Csicsila, Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain (University of Iowa Press, 2010)
  
• Berret, Anthony J., Mark Twain and Shakespeare: A Cultural Legacy (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993)
• Beidler, Peter, Rafts & Other Rivercraft in Huckleberry Finn (University of Missouri Press, 2018)
• Bird, John, Mark Twain and Metaphor (University of Missouri Press, 2007)
• Bliss, Donald Tiffany, Mark Twain's Tale of Today, Halley's Comet Returns: The Celebrated Author Critiques American Politics (CreateSpace/Hale & Northam, 2012)
• _____, Mark Twain's 10 Lessons for a Healthy Democracy: Keeping the Republic (Politics and Prose Bookstore, 2022)
  
• Bloom, Harold (ed.), Mark Twain (New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986)
  
• Budd, Louis J. (ed.), Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Bush, Harold K., Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors (University of Alabama Press, 2016)
  
• Camfield, Gregg, Sentimental Twain: Samuel Clemens in the Maze of Moral Philosophy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994)
  
• Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn, The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998)
• Caron, James E., Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter (University of Missouri Press, 2008)
• Coulombe, Joseph L., Mark Twain and the American West (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003)
  
• Covici, Pascal, Jr., Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997)
• Csicsila, Joseph and Chad Rohman, eds., Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009)
• David, Beverly, Mark Twain and His Illustrators: Volume II (1875-1883) (Whitston Publishing Company, 2001)
• Driscoll, Kerry, Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018)
  
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993)
• _____, (ed.), The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works (Library of America, 2010)
  
• Florence, Don, Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1995)
  
• Fulton, Joe B., Mark Twain's Ethical Realism: The Aesthetics of Race, Class, and Gender (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997)
  
• _____., Mark Twain in the Margins: The Quarry Farm Marginalia and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (University of Alabama Press, 2000)
• _____., Mark Twain Under Fire: Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851-2015 (Camden House, 2016)
  
• Graff, Gerald, and James Phelan (eds.), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (Boston and New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995)
  
• Griffith, Clark, Achilles and the Tortoise: Mark Twain's Fictions (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998)
• Harrington, Paula and Ronald Jenn, Mark Twain & France: The Making of a New American Identity (University of Missouri Press, 2017)
• Harris, James Henry, N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic (Fortress Press, 2021)
• Harris, Susan K., God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2011)
• Hellwig, Harold, Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind (McFarland, 2008)
• Hill, Richard A. and Jim McWilliams (eds.), Mark Twain Among the Scholars: Reconsidering Contemporary Twain Criticism (Albany: Whitston Publishing Company, Inc., 2002)
• Hurm, Gerd, Rewriting the Vernacular Mark Twain: The Aesthetics and Politics of Orality in Samuel Clemens's Fictions (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003)
  
• Horn, Jason Gary, Mark Twain and William James: Crafting a Free Self (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1996)
  
• Howe, Lawrence, Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Hsu, Hsuan, Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization (New York University Press, 2015)
• Justus, James, Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain (University of Missouri Press, 2004)
  
• Kete, Mary Louise, Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press, 1999)
  
• Knoper, Randall, Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
• Kolb, Harold H. Jr., Mark Twain: The Gift of Humor (University Press of America, 2015)
• Krauth, Leland, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003)
  
• Krauth, Leland, Proper Mark Twain (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999)
• Kupersmith, Abraham, Twain and Freud on the Human Race: Parallels on Personality, Politics and Religion (McFarland and Co., 2009)
• Lai-Henderson, Selina. Mark Twain in China (Stanford University Press, 2015)
• Lee, Judith Yaross, Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
• Levy, Andrew, Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster, 2015)
  
• LeMenager, Stephanie, Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
  
• Lowry, Richard S., "Littery Man": Mark Twain and Modern Authorship (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Mac Donnell, Kevin and R. Kent Rasmussen, eds., Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings (Bloomsbury, 2016)
• McParland, Robert, Mark Twain's Audience: A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain (Lexington Books, 2014)
• Melton, Jeffrey Alan, Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement (University of Alabama Press, 2002)
  
• Mensh, Elaine, and Harry Mensh, Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000)
  
• Messent, Peter, Mark Twain (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997)
• Messent, Peter, The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
  
• Michelson, Bruce
  
  • Literary Wit, (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000)
  • Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1995)
  • Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution (University of California Press, 2006)
• Morris, Linda, Gender Play in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and Transgression (University of Missouri Press, 2008)
• Norton, Charles, Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain: Death, Deceit, Dreams and Disguises (Xlibris Corporation, 2000)
  
• Obenzinger, Hilton, American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
• Oggel, Terry L., "Speaking Out About Race: 'The United States of Lyncherdom' Clemens Really Wrote" (Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 25. Edited by Jack Salzman. Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Omiya, Takeshi, Mark Twain and Europe (Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2015)
  
• Quirk, Tom
  
  • Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (University of Missouri Press, 1993)
    
  • Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997)
  • Mark Twain and Human Nature (University of Missouri Press, 2007)
  • Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001)
• Railton, Stephen, Mark Twain: A Short Introduction (Oxford, 2003)
• Rasmussen, R. Kent, ed., Critical Insights: Mark Twain (Salem Press, 2010)
• _____, Critical Insights: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Salem Press, 2017)
• _____, Critical Insights: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Salem Press/Grey House Publishing, 2022)
• Roark, Jarrod D., Mark Twain at the Gallows: Crime and Justice in His Western Writing, 1861-1873 (McFarland & Co., 2019)
• Robinson, Forrest G. The Author-Cat (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007)
  
• _____. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• Robinson, Forrest G., Gabriel Noah Brahm, Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem. The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx (University of Missouri Press, 2011)
• Scharnhorst, Gary, (ed.), Twain in His Own Time (University of Iowa Press, 2010)
  
• Sloane, David E. E. (ed.), Mark Twain's Humor (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993)
  
• Stahl, J. D., Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994)
  
• Sundquist, Eric J. (ed.), Mark Twain: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1994)
• Takeuchi, Yasuhiro, Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn's Father? (Routledge, 2018)
• Trites, Roberta Seelinger, Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
• Vogel, Dan, Mark Twain's Jews (KTAV Publishing House, 2006)
• Wieck, Carl, Refiguring Huckleberry Finn (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
• Williams, Nathaniel, Gears and God, Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America (University of Alabama Press, 2018)
• Wolfson, Nicholas, Huckleberry Finn: Antidote to Hate (Xlibris Corporation, 2003)
• Wuster, Tracy, Mark Twain, American Humorist (University of Missouri Press, 2016)
• Ziff, Larzer, Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910 (Yale University Press, 2001)
  
  

Biography

• Bailey, Susan Madeline and Deborah Lynn Gosselin, The Twain Shall Meet: The Mysterious Legacy of Samuel L. Clemens' Granddaughter, Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch (Self-published, 2014).
• Burns, Ken and Dayton Duncan and Geoffrey C. Ward, Mark Twain, An Illustrated Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
• Bush, Harold K., Jr. Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age (University of Alabama Press, 2007)
• Courtney, Steve. Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain's Closest Friend (University of Georgia Press, 2008)
• Dempsey, Terrell, Searching for Jim, Slavery in Sam Clemens's World (University of Missouri Press, 2003)
• Emerson, Everett, Mark Twain: A Literary Life (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
• Fanning, Philip Ashley, Mark Twain and Orion Clemens: Brothers, Partners, Strangers (The University of Alabama Press, 2003)
• Gold, Charles, "Hatching Ruin" or, Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy (University of Missouri Press, 2003)
• Goodman, Susan and Carl Dawson, William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life (University of California Press, 2005)
• Griffin, Benjamin, Mark Twain's Civil War: "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (Heyday and The Bancroft Library, 2019)
  
• Harris, Susan K., The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  
• Hoffman, Andrew, Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997)
• Hoffmann, Donald, Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda (University of Missouri Press, 2006)
• Jerome, Robert D., Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., and Barbara E. Snedecor, Mark Twain in Elmira, Second Edition (Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies, 2013).
• Kaplan, Fred, The Singular Mark Twain (Doubleday, 2003)
• Katz, Harry L. and The Library of Congress, Mark Twain's America: A Celebration in Words and Images (Little, Brown and Company, 2015)
• Kirk, Connie Ann, Mark Twain: A Biography (Greenwood Press, 2004)
• Knauer, Kelly, ed., Mark Twain: His Dangerous Mind, Remarkable Life and Enduring Legacy (Time Home Entertainment, 2015)
• Krass, Peter, Ignorance, Confidence and Filthy Rich Friends (John Wiley and Sons, 2007)
  
• Leon, Philip W., Mark Twain and West Point (Toronto: ECW Press, 1996)
• Loving, Jerome. Confederate Bushwhacker: Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War (University Press of New England, 2013)
  _____. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens (University of California Press, 2010)
• Lystra, Karen, Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (University of California Press, 2004)
• McAllister, Pam, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Mark Twain (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008)
• McFarland, Philip, Mark Twain and the Colonel. Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century (Rowan and Littlefield, 2012)
• Messent, Peter and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell; A Chaplain's Story (University of Georgia Press, 2006)
• Messent, Peter. Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, & Rogers Friendships (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Morris, Roy Jr. Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain (Simon and Schuster, 2010)
• Muller, John. Mark Twain in Washington, D. C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent (The History Press, 2013)
• Ober, K. Patrick, Mark Twain and Medicine: "Any Mummery Will Cure" (University of Missouri Press, 2003)
• Perry, Mark. Grant and Twain (Random House, 2004)
• Pfeffer, Miki (ed.), A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court: Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns. (Louisiana State University Press, 2019)
• Phipps, William E. Mark Twain's Religion (Mercer University Press, 2003)
  
• Powers, Ron, Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain (New York: Basic Books, 1999)
• Powers, Ron, Mark Twain, A Life (Free Press, 2005)
• Reigstad, Thomas J., Scribblin' For a Livin': Mark Twain's Pivotal Period in Buffalo (Prometheus Books, 2013)
  
• Rodney, Robert M., Mark Twain Overseas: A Biographical Account of His Voyages, Travels, and Reception in Foreign Lands, 1866-1910 (Three Continents Press, 1993)
• Ryan, Ann M. and Joseph McCullough (eds.), Cosmopolitan Twain (University of Missouri Press, 2008)
• Scharnhorst, Gary, The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871 (University of Missouri Press, 2018)
• Schilling, Peter Jr., Mark Twain's Mississippi River (Voyageur Press, 2014)
• Shelden, Michael. Mark Twain: Man in White (Random House, 2010)
  
• Skandera-Trombley, Laura, Mark Twain in the Company of Women (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994)
• Skandera-Trombley, Laura, Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010)
• Tarnoff, Ben, The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature (Penguin Press, 2014)
• Valentine-Fonorow, "Was It Heaven Or Hell?": The Triumphs and Torments of Mark Twain (Fonorow and Associates, Inc., 1995)
• Zacks, Richard. Chasing the Last Laugh. Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour. (Doubleday, 2016)
• Ziff, Larzer, Mark Twain: Lives and Legacies Series (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• Zwick, Jim, Confronting Imperialism: Essays on Mark Twain and the Anti-Imperialist League (Infinity Publishing, 2007)
• Zwonitzer, Mark. The Stateman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016)
  
  

Editions

• Baetzhold, Howard G., and Joseph B. McCullough (eds.), The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995)
• Berkove, Lawrence I. (ed.), The Sagebrush Anthology: Literature From the Silver Age of the Old West (University of Missouri Press, 2006)
  
• Budd, Louis J. (ed.), Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, 2 vols. (New York: Library of America, 1992)
• Bush, Harold K., Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent, (eds.), The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell (University of Georgia Press, 2017)
• Cooley, John (ed.), How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001)
  
• Dawidziak, Mark (ed.), Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996)
• _____, Mark Twain for Cat Lovers (Lyons Press, 2016)
• De Quille, Dan (William Wright), The Big Bonanza. (Peruse Press, 2013)
  
• _____, The Sorceress of Attu. Ed. Lawrence I. Berkove. (Dearborn: Mardigian Library, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1994.)
• Frank, Michael B. and Harriet Elinor Smith, Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 6: 1874-1875 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)
  
• Fischer, Victor, and Michael B. Frank (eds.), and Lin Salamo (assoc. ed.), Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 4: 1870-1871 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
  
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (ed.), The Oxford Mark Twain (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Gribben, Alan (ed.), Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (NewSouth, 2011)
• Gribben, Alan and Jeffrey Alan Melton (eds.) Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader (University of Alabama Press, 2009)
  
• Harranth, Wolf (trans.), Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn (Hamburg: Cecilie Dressler Verlag, 1995)
  
• Harris, Susan K. (ed.), Mark Twain: Historical Romances (New York: Library of America, 1994)
• Ketterer, David (ed.), Tales of Wonder (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
• Kiskis, Michael J. (ed.), Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters From The North American Review (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010)
  
• McCullough, Joseph B., and Janice McIntire-Strasburg (eds.), Mark Twain at the Buffalo Express: Articles and Sketches by America's Favorite Humorist (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999)
  
• McWilliams, Jim, Mark Twain in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-1891 (Troy, NY: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1997)
• Pomplun, Tom (ed.), Graphic Classics: Mark Twain (Eureka Productions, 2004)
  
• Quirk, Tom (ed.), Tales, Speeches, Essays and Sketches (New York: Penguin Books, 1994)
• Quirk, Tom (ed.), The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin Books, 2004)
• Rachels, David (ed.), Mark Twain's Civil War (University of Kentucky Press, 2007)
• Railton, Stephen (ed.), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Broadview Press, 2011)
  
• Rasmussen, R. Kent (ed.), Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers (University of California Press, 2013)
• _____, Mark Twain for Dog Lovers (Lyons Press, 2016)
• _____, Mark Twain: Autobiographical Writings (Penguin Books, 2012)
• _____, Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1995)
• _____, Mark Twain's Tales of the Macabre and Mysterious (Lyon's Press, 2024)
• Reigstad, Thomas J., The Illustrated Mark Twain and the Buffalo Express (North Country Books, 2024)
  
• Roberts, Don E. (ed.), The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Translated by Mark Twain (San Francisco: Fair Oaks Press, 1997)
• Roorda, Eric Paul (ed.), Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens ( University Press of New England, 2018)
  
• Salamo, Lin, and Harriet Elinor Smith (eds.), Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 5: 1872-73 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
• Salamo, Lin, Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank (ed.), Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handook for the Damned Human Race (Berkeley: University of Califoria Press, 2004)
• Scharnhorst, Gary (ed), Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (University of Alabama Press, 2006)
• _____, Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor (University of Missouri Press, 2014)
  
• Shaw, Angel Velasco and Luis H. Francia (eds.), Vestiges of War: The Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999 (New York University Press, 2003).
• Snedecor, Barbara (ed.), Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens (University of Missouri Press, 2023)
  
• Taper, Bernard (ed.), Mark Twain's San Francisco (Heyday Books, 2003)
  
• Thomason, Jerry, and Tom Quirk (eds.), "Colonel Sellers: A Drama in Five Acts," Missouri Review, 18.3 (1995): 109-151
• Twain, Mark, The Works of Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo (University of California Press, 2003)
• _____, Mark Twain Library: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo (University of California Press, 2001)
  
• _____, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Comprehensive Edition, introduction by Justin Kaplan; foreword and textual addendum by Victor Doyno (New York: Random House, 1996)
• _____, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic (Kindle Edition), introduction by John Seelye. Edited with notes by Guy Cardwell and R. Kent Rasmussen. 368 pp. (Penguin Classics 2008)
• _____, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Foreword by Azar Nafisi; Introduction and Notes by R. Kent Rasmussen (Penguin Classics, 2014)
• _____, The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, edited by Charles Honce. Forward by Vincent Starrett. A Note on "A Celebrated Village Idiot" by James O'Donnell Bennett. Limited edition of 500 copies. (Privately printed by Keokuk Public Library, 2007)
• _____, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Introduction and Notes by R. Kent Rasmussen (Penguin Classics, 2014)
• _____, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn (W. W. Norton and Co., 2001)
• _____, Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1. Harriet Elinor Smith (ed.). (University of California Press, 2010)
• _____, Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 2. Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, (eds.). (University of California Press, 2013)
• _____. Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 3. Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, (eds.). (University of California Press, 2015)
• _____, A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings, By Mark Twain, Livy Clemens, and Susy Clemens. edited by Benjamin Griffin. (University of California Press, 2014.
• _____, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians and Other Unfinished Stories. Foreword and Notes by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair (University of California Press, 1989, 2003)
• _____, The Innocents Abroad, edited by Philip Trauring (Quint Books, 2024)
• _____, Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts, edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin (University of California Press, 2003)
• _____, Mark Twain 100th Anniversary Collection. (SeaWolf Press, 2018)
• _____, Mark Twain Press Critic (Friends of the Bancroft Library, 2003)
• _____, Mark Twain's Book of Animals, edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin (University of California Press, 2010)
• _____, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition, edited by Alan Gribben. (NewSouth Books, 2011)
• _____. Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Original Text Edition, edited by Alan Gribben. (NewSouth Books, 2011)
• _____. Pudd'nhead Wilson: Manuscript and Revised Versions with "Those Extraordinary Twins," edited by Benjamin Griffin. (University of California Press, 2024)
• _____, Roughing It, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
• _____. Roughing It. (Peruse Press, 2015)
• _____, Who Is Mark Twain?, edited by Robert H. Hirst (HarperStudio, 2009)
• Twain, Mark and Philip Stead, The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2017)
  
• Zwick, Jim (ed.), Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992)
  
  

Reference

• Bell, James, Mark Twain and 8100 Goggin Kin (Bell Books, 2001)
• Camfield, Gregg, The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Collins, Brian, When In Doubt, Tell the Truth, and Other Quotations from Mark Twain (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
• Gribben, Alan
  • Mark Twain's Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading. Volume 1 (NewSouth, 2019)
  • Mark Twain's Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading. Volume 2 (New South, 2022)
    
• Horn, Jason Gary, Mark Twain: A Descriptive Guide to Biographical Sources (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999)
  
• LeMaster, J. R., and James D. Wilson (eds.), Mark Twain Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993)
  
• Machlis, Paul, with the assistance of Deborah Ann Turner, Union Catalog of Letters to Clemens (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
• Messent, Peter, The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• Messent, Peter and Louis J. Budd (eds.), A Companion to Mark Twain (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
  
• Rasmussen, R. Kent
  • Bloom's How to Write about Mark Twain. (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008)
  • Critical Companion to Mark Twain: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work, 2 volumes (New York: Facts on File, 2007)
    
  • Mark Twain A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings
    
    • cloth edition (New York: Facts On File, 1995)
      
    • paper edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
      
  • The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms and Concise Opinions (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1998)
• Quirk, Tom (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 343: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Documentary Volume (Gale Cengage Learning, 2008)
  
  

Multimedia

• 88 Days in the Motherlode: Mark Twain Finds His Voice. DVD. John C. Brown and Bert Simonis. (This 'n That Films, 2015)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper (Naxos Audio Books, 1995-2001)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Understanding a Classic (video) and Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn and Other Works (CD-ROM) (Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1998)
  
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Auburn, CA: Audio Partners, 1999)
  
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Roughing It (Books on Tape); Mark Twain Gift Set: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, "Jumping Frog" (The Mind's Eye)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain: Collector's Edition. Directed by Will Vinton (Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2012)
  
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the West, and Mark Twain Tonight! (Auburn, CA: Audio Partners Publishing Corp., 1995), and Mark Twain for President (Washington, DC: Macklin/Clemens Corp., 1988)
  
• Becker, Thomas, Great Authors: The Humor of Mark Twain (Arlington, TX: Entertainment Software, n.d.); and "The Double-Barreled Detective Story" (Sound Room Pub., 1996)
  
• Engel, Elliot, Mark Twain: A Light and Enlightening Look (Raleigh, NC: Media Consultants, 1996)
  
• Educational Print and Outreach Department. Huck Finn Coursepack. Includes video documentary Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Huck Finn in Context: A Teaching Guide. WGBH Educational Foundation, 2000.
• Holbrook, Hal, Mark Twain Tonight! (video, 1999 [1967])
• Ken Richters as Mark Twain, America's First Stand Up Comedian (Connecticut Public Broadcasting, 2002)
• Layne, McAvoy, Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii (The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation, 2004)
  
• Mark Twain: A Concise Biography (West Long Branch, NJ: Kultur International Films, 1996?)
• Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns (PBS Home Video, 2002.)
• Mark Twain's Neighborhood Nook Farm (Connecticut Public Broadcasting, 2002)
  
• Post, Jim, Mark Twain and the Laughing River (CD) (Evanston, IL: Woodside Avenue Music Productions, Inc., 1996); and Post, Jim, Mark Twain and the Laughing River (video) (Galena, IL: Jim Post Productions, 1998?)
• Schwab, Jacqueline. Mark Twain's America, A Portrait in Music. (Dorian Recordings, 2001).
  
• Smith, Llewelyn and Andrew Ward, The Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (The American Experience). Alexandria, VA: PBS Home Video, 2000.
  
• Tom Sawyer. Hollywood: Library of Moving Images, 2000. 44 minutes. (Rerelease of 1917 silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor for Paramount.)
  
• Twain, Mark, The American Claimant. Narrated by Richard Henzel. (The Mark Twain in Person Audio Library, 2010)
  _____, The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Translated by Mark Twain (San Francisco: Fair Oaks Audio, 1999)
  _____. Is Shakespeare Dead? Narrated by Richard Henzel. (The Mark Twain in Person Audio Library, 2011)
  

Children and education

• Aller, Susan, Mark Twain: A & E Biography (Lerner Publications, 2001)
• Evans, John D., A Tom Sawyer Companion: An Autobiographical Guided Tour with Mark Twain (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993)
  
• Gilding, Thomas, Mark Twain & Me, Mikey T. and other stories (Burlington, WI: Mark Twain Entertainment, 1996)
  
• de Koster, Katie (ed.)
  
  • Readings on Mark Twain (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996)
    
  • Readings on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998)
    
  • Readings on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999)
    
• Leonard , James S. (ed.), Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)
• Nogowski, John, Teaching Huckleberry Finn: Why and How to Present the Controversial Classic in the High School Classroom (McFarland & Company, 2018)
• Rasmussen, R. Kent, Mark Twain for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activities (Chicago Review Press, 2004)
  

Mark Twain in fiction and popular culture

• Brock, Darryl. If I Never Get Back and Two in the Field (Plume, 2002, 2003)
• Bush, H. K. The Hemingway Files (Blank Slate Press, 2017)
• Cady, Jack, The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995)
• Champlin, Tim
  • Mark Twain Speaking from the Grave: The Search for His Hidden Recordings (High Hill Press, 2016)
  • Tom Sawyer and the Ghosts of Summer (Pill Hill Press, 2010)
• Clinch, Jon, Finn (Random House, 2007)
• Coover, Robert, Huck Out West (W. W. Norton and Company, 2017)
• Cullen, Lynn, Twain's End (Gallery Books, 2015)
• DeRoche, Tim, The Ballad of Huck & Miguel (Redtail Press, 2018)
• Elster, Charles Harrington, Test of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT (Harcourt, Inc., 2004)
• Fanning, Patrick, Infidels Abroad: A Novel of Mark Twain & John Singer Sargent in an Alternate California (ArtWorks Press, 2012)
  
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Foote, Horton, and Mark Dawidziak, Horton Foote's The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay about Mark Twain. With History and Analysis by Mark Dawidziak (Applause, 2003)
• Garvey, Ellen Gruber, Writing With Scissors, American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• Hart, Lenore, Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008)
  
• Haupt, Clyde V., Huckleberry Finn on Film: Film and Television Adaptations of Mark Twain's Novel, 1920-1993 (Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland and Company, 1994)
  
• Hauser, Thomas, Mark Twain Remembers: A Novel (New York: Barricade Books, 1999)
  
• Heck, Peter J.
  
  • A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court: A Mark Twain Mystery (New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1996)
    
  • Death on the Mississippi: A Mark Twain Mystery (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1995)
    
  • The Prince and the Prosecutor: A Mark Twain Mystery (New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1997)
• Ishihara, Tsuyoshi, Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon (University of Missouri Press, 2005)
• Lawson, Jessica, The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014)
• Macnaughton, Bill (William R.), Mark Twain's Civil War (RoseDog Books, 2012)
• Myrick, Leslie Diane and Gary Scharnhorst, Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910 (University of Alabama Press, 2024)
• Pearson, Michael, Shohola Falls (Syracuse University Press, 2003)
• Schullery, Paul, Diamond Jubilee: Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, and the Peril of the Empire (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)
  
• Thoene, Brock, The Legend of Storey County: A Novel (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995)
• Twain, Mark and Stephen Stewart, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Collaboration; The Sequel to: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (New Mill Publishing, 2001)
• Walker, Dan, Huckleberry Finn in Love and War: The Lost Journals (PublishAmerica, 2007)
• Young, Melissa Scholes, Flood: A Novel (Center Street/Hachette Book Group, 2017)
  

Other titles of interest

• Adler, John, America's Most Influential Journalist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast (HarpWeek, 2022)
• Andrews, Gregg
  
  • City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996)
    
  • Insane Sisters: Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999)
  • My Daddy's Blues: A Childhood Memoir from the Land of Huck & Jim (Independently published, 2019)
  • Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011)
    
• Antonucci, David, Fairest Picture: Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe (Art of Learning Publishing, Lake Tahoe, 2011)
• Applegate, Debby, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday, 2006)
• Austilat, Andreas, A Tramp in Berlin, New Mark Twain Stories: an Account of Twain's Berlin Adventures (Berlinica, 2013)
• Barry, John M., Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997)
• Beahrs, Andrew, Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens (The Penguin Press, 2010)
• Benfey, Christopher, A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade (Penguin Press, 2008)
• Boewe, Mary, Beyond the Cabbage Patch: The Literary World of Alice Hegan Rice (Butler Books, 2010)
• Chou, Steve, Hannibal, Missouri; Bluff City Memories (Arcadia Publishing, 2002)
• Coggswell, Gladys Caines, Stories from the Heart: Missouri's African American Heritage (University of Missouri Press, 2009)
  
• Cooper, Robert, Around the World with Mark Twain (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2000)
• Courtney, Steve, "The Loveliest Home That Ever Was": The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford (Dover Publications, 2011)
  _____. Mark Twain's Hartford. (Arcadia Publishing, 2016).
  
• Curtis, Donnelyn and Lawrence I. Berkove, eds. Before the Big Bonanza: Dan De Quille's Early Comstock Accounts (University of Missouri Press, 2015)
• Daggett, R. M. and J. T. Goodman. With Introduction and Notes by Lawrence I. Berkove. The Psychoscope; A Sensational Drama in Five Acts (Mark Twain Journal, 2006)
• DeMarco, Laura. Mark Twain's America, Then and Now (Pavilion Books, 2019)
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee, A Reader's Companion (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
• Hester, Alex and Stephanie, The Huckleberry Cookbook (TwoDot, 2017).
• Holbrook, Hal, Harold, The Boy Who Became Mark Twain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)
• Hopkins, Richard L., The Tragic Saga of James W. Paige's Marvelous Typesetting Machine (Hill & Dale Private Press and Type Foundry, 2014)
• Johnson, Joel A., Beyond Practical Virtue (University of Missouri Press, 2007)
• Kinzer, Stephen, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire (Henry Holt and Company, 2017)
• Kaiser, Scott, Splittin' the Raft (CreateSpace, 2017)
• Kolin, Philip C. and Jack B. Bedell, Down to the Dark River: Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River (Louisiana Literature Journal and Press, 2015)
  
• Leckey, Andrew, The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Wisdom on Money, Wealth, and Investing. (Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1999 )
• Lowe, Hilary Iris, Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism (University of Missouri Press, 2012)
• Multatuli, Max Havelaar, or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. Translated from Dutch by Ina Rilke and David McKay. Introduction by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. (New York: New York Review Books, 2019)
• Nissen, Axel, Bret Harte, Prince and Pauper. (University Press of Mississippi, 2000)
  
• Scharnhorst, Gary, Bret Harte, Opening the American Literary West. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000)
• Stewart, Robert E, Aurora; Nevada's Ghost City of the Dawn. (Nevada Publications, 2004)
• Strathcarron, Ian, Innocence and War: Mark Twain's Holy Land Revisited. (Dover Publications, 2012)
  _____. The Indian Equator: Mark Twain's India Revisited (Dover Publications, 2013)
  
• Vaidhyanathan. Siva, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001)
  
• Vitale, Joe
  
  • Cyber Writing: How to Promote Your Product or Service Online (Without Being Flamed) (New York: Amacom, 1997)
    
  • There's A Customer Born Every Minute: P.T. Barnum's Secrets to Business Success (New York: Amacom, 1998)
• Wadsworth, Sarah. In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Massachusetts Press, (2006)
  
• Ward, Andrew, Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000)
  

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