Written by Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Speeches
by Mark TwainMark Twain's Speeches is a collection of speeches of the America’s most renowned author and humorist, who had addressed to his audience in various events like public holidays, important anniversaries and school graduation days. These speeches were published after death of Mark Twain. This is a stunning collection of the great writer’s w..
The Gilded Age - A Tale of Today
by Mark TwainThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a satire work by Mark Twain co-authored by Charles Dudley Warner which criticizes the political corruption in the post-Civil War America. Probably the only work Twain has ever co-authored, it was not as popular as other Twain's works, however the Title of the novel has been synonym for the greed, corruption ..
A Dog's Tale
by Mark TwainA Dog's Tale is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
by Mark TwainThe 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 & Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900). Twain encouraged readers to understand it as a satirical replay of the Gar..
1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
by Mark TwainConversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqu? squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a con..
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
by Mark TwainThe $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publ..
The Stolen White Elephant
by Mark TwainThe Stolen White Elephant is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood. In this detective mystery, a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
by Mark TwainFenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of verbose writing, poor plotting, glaring inconsistencies, overused clich?s..