Mark Twain

Recommended reading: Reading Rat


Electronic text: Online Books by Mark Twain, The Online Books Page


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

The Lives and Loves of Samuel Clemens, review by Larry McMurtry of The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography, by Fred Kaplan, and Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years, by Karen Lystra, New York Review of Books, April 8, 2004

Traveling with Twain in an Age of Simulations: Rereading and reliving The Innocents Abroad, by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Common-Place, April 2004

Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain, by William F. Byrne, Humanitas 1999 No. 1

Mark Twain, by Alan Gribben, American Literary Scholarship, 1998

Mark Twain: more 'tears & flapdoodle', review by James W. Tuttleton of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Comprehensive Edition, The New Criterion, September 1996

'The Innocents Abroad' or the new pilgram’s progress, by Mordecai Richler, on Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, The New Criterion, May 1996

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Classics Revisited (1968), by Kenneth Rexroth

Review by Kenneth Rexroth (1959) of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', by Mark Twain, review by William Dean Howells, Atlantic Monthly, May 1876

'The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress', review by William Dean Howells, Atlantic Monthly, December 1869