Concerning the Jews
Written after observing anti-Semitism in Vienna.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Twain's criticism of Deerslayer.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
How to Tell a Story
Complete text of Mark Twain's essay on the art of story telling with examples showing the importance of the pause.
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
Is Shakespeare Dead?
In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
King Leopold's Soliloquy
Complete searchable text and illustrations of Mark Twain's denunciation of Leopold's rule of the Congo.
Life on the Mississippi: Suppressed Chapter
Chapter about political conformity and crime in the South, removed by the publisher.
The Awful German Language
Comic discussion of the difficulties which he encountered in learning the language.
The Death of Jean
On the death of his youngest daughter on Christmas Eve of 1909.
What is a Man? And Other Essays
The Death of Jean, The Turning-Point of My Life, How to Make History Dates Stick, The Memorable Assassination, A Scrap of Curious History, Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty, At the Shrine of St. Wagner, William Dean Howells, English as She is Taught, A Simplified Alphabet, As Concerns Interpreting the Deity, Concerning Tobacco, Taming the Bicycle, The Bee and Is Shakespeare Dead?
What Is Man?
Complete text of the first edition of Mark Twain's philosophical work.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
In plain text, or as a zip file, at Project Gutenberg.
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us
In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.