Mark Twain: The Complete Works[Classics Authors Vol: 1]

by Mark Twain

This book contains the works and novels of Mark Twain:

- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The American Claimant
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story
- A Horse's Tale
- The Mysterious Stranger\

Also Available in Black Horse Classics

1 - Mark Twain
2 - Charles Dickens
3 - William Shakespeare
4 - Jane Austen
5 - leo Tolstoy
6 - Jack London
7 - Rudyard Kipling
8 - H.G Wells
9 - Marcel Proust
10 - Victor Hugo
11 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12 - Jules Vernes
13 - Thomas Hardy
14- Joseph Conrad
15 -Oscar Wilde
16- Herman Melville
17 - Edgar Allan Poe
18 - Henry James
19 - Lewis Carroll
20 - Hans Christen Andersen

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Literature, Ebooks, Humor, Historical Fiction, Collections

8610 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Reviews

[J. Kahele · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glorious

If only I could write as clever as Mark Twain. Whenever I read his works I am utterly amazed and a lot of the time I can imagine him pausing with thought as he writes down his words.

[Ken Consaul · Rating 4 out of 5]

What's not to like about Mark Twain? His humor is as apropos today as when written. His anecdotes are great and his characters speak with unique and easily recognizable voices. I'll admit some of the travel books can run on with unrelated details but the glimpses of travel in another era are wonderful. I'm going to fault this volume only because the table of contents is awkward to use. Don't just read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Try Roughing it and some of the others. Great Value, too

[Howard · Rating 1 out of 5]

The following refers to the Canterbury Classics year 2009 printing.

I borrowed this volume from our local library in order to reread The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I also downloaded a PDF text from an internet web site https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76.

In reading the hard copy of Chapter XIX, in which Huck meets the Duke and the Dauphin, I read that after taking the fugitives on board,
“we paddled over to the towhead and hid in the cottonwoods and was safe.”
The first fugitive proceeds to claim his title as the Duke, and immediately I read,
“Jim's eyes bugged out when he heard that; and I reckon mine did too...”
which, aside from a vague reference to having finished breakfast, is without narration of Huck's reuniting with Jim (his traveling companion) after his meeting with the fugitives.

When I compared this chapter to the text of the downloaded file, I read that after taking the fugitives,
“They jumped into the canoe with me, and soon I was rowing as quickly as I
could toward our raft hidden on the river.”,
which would explain Jim's subsequent entrance into the conversation.

After noticing this discrepancy, I was able to observe significant differences, including omissions, in comparing the two texts.

I suspect that the text of Finn in this volume is somehow pirated or corrupted. Obviously, the editing was careless in overlooking the omission of Huck's reunion with Jim. With this information, one might want to be cautious about the reliability of the texts here.

[reherrma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wer mehr über Deutschland und Europa während der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts erfahren möchte, kann gerne auf die Reiseberichte, Essays und Aufsätze von Mark Twain zurückgreifen. Dieser stets humorvolle und zutiefst humanistisch denkende Schriftsteller machte mehrere Reisen durch Europa und speziell Deutschland und berichtete seinen amerikanischen Lesern aus einem fremden Kontinent und ihre skurrilen Bewohner. Dieses Buch ist ein Quell der besten Reiseberichte Mark Twains, viele Essays und einige, in meinen Augen zeitlose Artikel, die man heute.. und besonders heute noch mit viel Vergnügen lesen kann.
Z.B. ist sein Aufsatz über "Dies schreckliche deutsche Sprache" für mich immer noch ein großes Vergnügen, weil er damit uns ein Fenster in unser innerstes öffnet. Sein Reisebericht durch Deutschland, speziell durch den Schwarzwald war und ist für mich einer der besten Reiseberichte, die ich bisher über den Schwarzwald gelesen habe, vieleicht kommt noch Ernest Hemingway, der 50 Jahre danach, ein Essay über diesen Landstrich geschrieben hat, daran heran. Als jemand, der dort aufgewachsen ist, und dessen Heimat durch den Literaten Mark Twain humorvoll beschrieben wird, ist das erhellend und brüllend komisch.
Sind doch für Mark Twain die Größen der Misthaufen ein direkter Hinweis auf den Reichtum des Besitzers...
Schade, dass es Schriftsteller wie Mark Twain nicht mehr gibt...

[Revsing · Rating 1 out of 5]

Impossible to find content

This book has no real table of contents. There is no dedicated page for it. Using the sidebar function of my tablet gave me a list of book titles and stuff like chapter one, or appendix and so on. I am really disapointed. I couldn't find Tom Sawyer in a ten minutes long search. So I finally gave up.

[john r shell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much about nothing!

Tom Sawyer is OK. Rest is waste of your time. Slow, repetitive, not worth my time. Too many good books to read.

[Bonnye Reed]

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[Sally Tibbetts · Rating 3 out of 5]

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MARK TWAIN was really not what I expected after all the hoop-la about it. It's certainly interesting but it is spattered with tons of little notes and asides and writings that are, simply put, not that interesting unless you are a Twain scholar doing research and want to know what he said to his publishers etc. There are some good parts too--some unexpected insights. Did I think this would be a little more "juicy" ? Perhaps. However, there's no question the man was a wizard with his pen and had a rampant imagination and very very strong political and social opinions. There's enough to keep your interest but for me, it was rather slow-gong.

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not a complete collection

This kindle edition does not contain all of Twain's fiction. It is missing "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc". This is such a glaring omission and I would not recommend this collection to anyone.

[Ida Wilcox · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a hard read for me.

[Sjervey · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Innocents Abroad - not the whole collection
It almost feels superfluous to review Twain. The book is a sharply observed travelogue of a sea trip from New York via many European and middle eastern stops to the Holy Land. Adventures include a meeting with the Emperor of Russia who was vacationing on the Black Sea, a humble man much admired by Twain. It's funny and penetrating, sarcastic and profound. Perhaps the only worthwhile thing to be included in this review is a warning about Twain's prejudices. This author who gave us Huckleberry Finn and Puddin'head Wilson was nevertheless prejudiced against ethnic groups whom he took to be lazy and shiftless.He assumes that the people he sees frittering away their time could be improving their lots, but he makes no effort to determine whether that is true. My observation is that people who can improve their own lots do, but wshen the fruits of their labors will be given to others, they can't be bothered. When we remember that Twain is ahead of his times in many respects, we should forgive him for the lapses of ignorance and enjoy a thoroughly entertaining picture of a world not so long past.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

It illuminates how little of his work is used repeatedly in quotes, movies, etc. I came to find out that what I would have considered my favorite from early reading did not hold now. He was observant of his surroundings and wrote feverishly throughout his life. It took months to work through it all, but it was worth it.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an old set of tapes that I have and I enjoy listening to the excerpts and stories as I puzzle or crack walnuts. The audio production is very well done and I enjoy the sarcasm of Mark Twain. A great way to enjoy Mark Twain.

[Deborah · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say?

[Stanley Yokell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good.

Very clear wrijting.Best Go reading. Especially at night. Perfect for an old man who green up reading his books most of them anyway.

[William Skislak · Rating 5 out of 5]

These stories are great around a camp fire or reading to the children. As a literature major to be able to carry these stories with you on your smart phone and read is a great feeling.

[Ruth]

I decided to read Huckleberry Finn after reading James by Percival Everett. It is really quite hard to read with modern sensibilities between the abhorrent racism and the child abuse.

[Peter Reiner · Rating 3 out of 5]

While interesting biography it was too long.

[Morris Nelms · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened to Nathan Osgood read Huckleberry Finn. Outstanding.

[Erika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wanted to read the literary offenses of James Fenimore Cooper

I wanted to read the essay The literary offenses of James Fenimore Cooper. I had been reading Ambrose Bierce's piece on The Waltz and my thoughts jumped to some of Twain's essays I'd read in university. Delphi has done a great job of gathering Twain's works in one place and I look forward to reading more.

[Pat Cummings · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love to re-read a favorite. In this collection, I bypassed the familiar Mississippi novels, and went straight to the tale of 19th-century Americans abroad in Europe, The Innocents Abroad.

In 1972 when I first read this travel novel, it was a paperback bought for a dime at a yard sale. We took turns, my spouse and I, reading it aloud on a long bus trip, in between extracts from two volumes of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization. As a result, my memories of it are mingled with horror over the barbarism of Merovingian Franks and awe at the artistry of Asian civilizations.

Clearest in my recollection of Twain's Innocents is the reaction of the American couples to the historical sites and sights they were presented with in France, Italy and Spain. These raw newcomers to the historical grandeur of Europe were nevertheless accustomed to living "great men." In America, it was common that great works of engineering and art had been accomplished by someone currently living, someone with whom Twain could sit down in the beer-hall and stand to a round.

Imagine the dismay, and growing disgust, at the idea that every great accomplishment was from the past; that "glory days" could only be remotely behind one. Every artist, every builder, every great statesman they hear touted is deceased. Each statue celebrates an ex-personage. Eventually, Twain and his companions begin preempting the expected declaration. After waiting "as long as we can hold out, in fact," they ask their guides (each of whom Twain names "Ferguson"), "Is... is he dead?"

This is side-splittingly funny, especially when they make the same inquiry about an Egyptian mummy or an ancient rebel hung by his chin from mouldering castle walls.

Twain's observations are dead-on, as always. It is not only the hapless Europeans he pinions, but also Old Travelers; tourists like themselves whose experience is just that hair broader that Twain's companions' and his own. These folks speak from the elevation of their knowledge to tell monstrous lies. There is the doctor, whose attempts to speak French are doomed by the lack of that tongue in the peasant he addresses. She turns out to be English.

Still, the travelers do get some thrills from their trip:

We recognized the brown old gothic pile (the Cathedral of Notre Dame) in a moment; it was like the pictures.

[Marc Joenz · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a young man, I read the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, falling in love with the simplistic, yet complex writings of Mark Twain. Being raised on the classics, his writing style was unlike any I had encountered before.

Then I fell in love with his short stories, especially The Jumping Frog. The visions that danced in my head would often make me laugh out loud. I could see the scenes as clear as the moonlight that peered through my bedroom window as I held a flashlight underneath my bed sheets to sneak in a few more pages before I fell asleep, flashlight still on.

As an adult, I began to realize what an important author this man whose pen name was based on a marking of water depth really was. His musings on politics, race, religion and relationships, are as pertinent in the present as they were when he wrote them.

To this day, when I feel the need to take a break from my favorite living writers, which are many, and go to a place where the past merges with the present, where politicians are mocked, jumping frogs are cherished, and the mighty Mississippi rolls, I pull out my well worn copy....and dive in.

[Kent Lundgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read Huckleberry Finn several times since high school 45 years ago, and it always comes through fresh. If you want to be an American writer and you have not read all, or most, of Mark Twain's writing you are not fully committed, you haven't done all your homework, for Twain shows us the possible.

No commentary about the book is required, but I will observe that an American who has not read it, has a huge gap in his cultural literacy. HF is more than an engaging and amusing story, it is first-rate commentary on mankind generally, and U.S. society in the 1850's. It contains astute and stinging observations still relevant to the nation and the individual today.

[Joseph Donigian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fully complete novels, and everything, else you could imagine

I would probably drop it to a three and a half because he repeated stories over again several times which was annoying maybe it was an editing issue because I thought those repeated stories should be removed.

And he tried to speak some French and German and I don't speak either language. But if you restrict yourself to the novels and short stories you probably will do best.

[Frederick Gear · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book, even though the dialect is very difficult to follow. I usually can decode this kind of writing, easily, but I found that I had to go back several times and reread to understand some of the speech in the book, particularly Jim's. But the storytelling is top notch and just what I expect from Twain.

[Kyle K]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -

The Prince and the Pauper -

Pudd'nhead Wilson -

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County -

The Stolen White Elephant -

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note -

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg -

The Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court -

[Counsel182 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually read a different version but it really was the first time I "seriously" read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Train of course remains a marvel. I especially liked some of his lesser known works...in particular the 1,000,000 pound note is something I don't believe was ever mentioned to me before and is a true delight.

[charles hudson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Am just now reading. Should have gotten this year's ago.

It's too bad that there are not more like him today. It's apparent that DC could use a whole lot more like him. They take themselves far too serious. They don't even lie well ! They could have used lessons from MT to refine their feeble attempts.

[Jonathan]

We should get a better copy.

[Kenn Prebilic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was looking for Huck Finn and found this volume -- can't beat an ebook version for $1.99 with all these Twain works in it. Read much of this before in days long gone by and wanted to read it again.