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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Description: Browse links to chapters of the book
Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Description: Early Attempts and the complete Autobiographical Dictations
Browse Early Tales and Sketches
- Description: Chronological list of links to the individual works in volumes one and two of the Mark Twain Project's Early Tales & Sketches
Appendixes and Editorial Matter
- Description: The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript, Photographs, Appendixes, and front and back matter from the three-volume Mark Twain Project edition
Appendixes and Editorial Matter
- Description: Editorial Introduction, Appendixes, Textual Introduction, Guide to the Textual Apparatus, Description of Texts
Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
- Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Introduction
- Description: Editorial introduction to the three-volume Mark Twain Project edition
Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905
- Description: Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905
The Tennessee Land
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Early years in Florida, Missouri
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
The Machine Episode
- Description: (1890, 1893-94) Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Travel-Scraps I
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Four Sketches about Vienna
- Description: '[Beauties of the German Language], [Comment on Tautology and Grammar], [A Group of Servants], [A Viennese Procession]'
My Debut as a Literary Person
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Horace Greeley
- Description: (1898-1899) Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Lecture-Times
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Ralph Keeler
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Scraps from My Autobiography (From Chapter IX)
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Scraps from My Autobiography (Private History of a Manuscript That Came to Grief)
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Reflections on a Letter and a Book
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Something about Doctors
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Henry H Rogers
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
Anecdote of Jean
- Description: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
- Composition Date: November 1902–September 1908
- Description: The complete text of "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" on one page
Early Attempts
- Description: An Early Attempt, My Autobiography, The Latest Attempt, The Final (and Right) Plan, Preface, The Florentine Dictations
An Early Attempt
- Description: Prefatory Materials
My Autobiography (Random Extracts from It)
- Description: Prefatory Materials
Second Preface, in Three Parts
- Description: Prefatory Materials
Appendixes, Volume 1
- Description: Appendixes A, B, and C from Early Tales & Sketches, Volume 1
Autobiographical Dictations
- Description: Complete browsable list of the autobiographical dictations beginning 9 January 1906
Autobiographical Dictation of 9 January 1906
- Description: I shall scatter through this Autobiography newspaper clippings without end...
Autobiographical Dictation of 10 January 1906
- Description: I have to make several speeches within the next two or three months...
Autobiographical Dictation of 11 January 1906
- Description: I received the following letter some days ago, from Mrs. Laura K. Hudson...
Autobiographical Dictation of 12 January 1906
- Description: This talk about Mr. Whittier's seventieth birthday reminds me...
Autobiographical Dictation of 13 January 1906
- Description: The piety-ending was used also by Franklin and Johnson, and possibly by the rest...
Autobiographical Dictation of 15 January 1906
- Description: Rev. Dr. Burton swung his leonine head around, focused me with his eye...
Autobiographical Dictation of 16 January 1906
- Description: That incident made a strong impression upon me...
Autobiographical Dictation of 17 January 1906
- Description: With considerable frequency, since then, I have tried to get publishers...
Autobiographical Dictation of 18 January 1906
- Description: Senator Tilman, of South Carolina, has been making a speech...
Autobiographical Dictation of 19 January 1906
- Description: In those early days dueling suddenly became a fashion...
Autobiographical Dictation of 23 January 1906
- Description: There was a great mass meeting at Carnegie Hall last night...
Autobiographical Dictation of 24 January 1906
- Description: It is plain, I think, that this old article was written about twenty-two years ago...
Autobiographical Dictation of 1 February 1906
- Description: Joe was not quite present. It was not etiquette for him...
Autobiographical Dictation of 2 February 1906
- Description: It explained that Susy was slightly ill...
Autobiographical Dictation of 5 February 1906
- Description: His was a sweet and winning face...
Autobiographical Dictation of 6 February 1906
- Description: When Susy was twelve and a half years old, I took to the platform again...
Autobiographical Dictation of 7 February 1906
- Description: When Susy was thirteen, and was a slender little maid...
Autobiographical Dictation of 8 February 1906
- Description: Along one side of the library, in the Hartford home, the bookshelves joined...
Autobiographical Dictation of 9 February 1906
- Description: Susy's remark about my strong language troubles me...
Autobiographical Dictation of 12 February 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 13 February 1906
- Description: I recall several of them without much difficulty...
Autobiographical Dictation of 14 February 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 15 February 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 16 February 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 20 February 1906
- Description: It is death-notices like this that enable me to realize in some sort...
Autobiographical Dictation of 21 February 1906
- Description: But I am wandering far from Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 22 February 1906
- Description: I have wandered far from Susy's chat about her grandfather...
Autobiographical Dictation of 23 February 1906
- Description: During the previous year or year and a half...
Autobiographical Dictation of 26 February 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 5 March 1906
- Description: I was always heedless...
Autobiographical Dictation of 6 March 1906
- Description: I was very anxious to keep him in his place...
Autobiographical Dictation of 7 March 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 8 March 1906
- Description: It turned out just so...
Autobiographical Dictation of 9 March 1906
- Description: I am talking of a time sixty years ago...
Autobiographical Dictation of 12 March 1906
- Description: We will stop talking about my schoolmates of sixty years ago...
Autobiographical Dictation of 14 March 1906
- Description: The ominous paralysis continues...
Autobiographical Dictation of 15 March 1906
- Description: POLICE HUSTLE CROWD AWAITING MARK TWAIN...
Autobiographical Dictation of 16 March 1906
- Description: We will return to those school children of sixty years ago...
Autobiographical Dictation of 20 March 1906
- Description: One of the standing delights of the American nation...
Autobiographical Dictation of 21 March 1906
- Description: Certainly mental telegraphy is an industry which is always silently at work...
Autobiographical Dictation of 22 March 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 23 March 1906
- Description: A good many years ago Mrs. Clemens used to keep...
Autobiographical Dictation of 26 March 1906
- Description: ROCKEFELLER, JR., ON WEALTH...
Autobiographical Dictation of 27 March 1906
- Description: I have allowed Higbie to assist...
Autobiographical Dictation of 28 March 1906
- Description: My brother's experience was another conspicuous example...
Autobiographical Dictation of 29 March 1906
- Description: But I am in error. Orion did not come...
Autobiographical Dictation of 30 March 1906
- Description: I will drop Orion for the present and return...
Appendixes, Volume 2
- Description: Appendixes A, B, and C from Early Tales & Sketches, Volume 2
Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
- Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
Autobiographical Dictation of 2 April 1906
- Description: PROMOTION FOR BARNES...
Autobiographical Dictation of 3 April 1906
- Description: BARNES'S APPOINTMENT ANGERS WASHINGTON...
Autobiographical Dictation of 4 April 1906
- Description: MRS. MORRIS CASE IN SENATE...
Autobiographical Dictation of 5 April 1906
- Description: Am I standing upon the world's back and looking east...
Autobiographical Dictation of 6 April 1906
- Description: This house is No. 21 Fifth Avenue...
Autobiographical Dictation of 9 April 1906
- Description: This morning's mail brings me from France a letter...
Autobiographical Dictation of 10 April 1906
- Description: When "Huck Finn" was flung out of the Concord Public Library...
Autobiographical Dictation of 11 April 1906
- Description: I am not glancing through my books to find out...
Autobiographical Dictation of 21 May 1906
- Description: We are to abide here in the green solitude of the woods...
Autobiographical Dictation of 23 May 1906
- Description: But I must go back to Webb...
Autobiographical Dictation of 24 May 1906
- Description: My opportunity was now come to right myself...
Autobiographical Dictation of 26 May 1906
- Description: As I have already remarked, I had imported my nephew-in-law...
Autobiographical Dictation of 28 May 1906
- Description: Webster conceived the idea that he had discovered me to the world...
Autobiographical Dictation of 29 May 1906
- Description: His new quarters were on the second or third floor...
Autobiographical Dictation of 31 May 1906
- Description: This is a magnificent morning...
Autobiographical Dictation of 1 June 1906
- Description: Whenever galley-proofs or revises went to General Grant...
Autobiographical Dictation of 2 June 1906
- Description: I suspected that the bookkeeper, Scott, was going to have...
Autobiographical Dictation of 4 June 1906
- Description: To-morrow will be the 5th of June...
Autobiographical Dictation of 6 June 1906
- Description: York Harbor consists of a widely scattered cluster...
Autobiographical Dictation of 7 June 1906
- Description: Several times, in letters written to friends, in those days...
Autobiographical Dictation of 11 June 1906
- Description: After a week of silence and inanition I hardly know...
Autobiographical Dictation of 12 June 1906
- Description: During fifty-six years, the whole great globe...
Autobiographical Dictation of 13 June 1906
- Description: How wonderful are the ways of Providence...
Autobiographical Dictation of 14 June 1906
- Description: Harte was paid for setting type only...
Autobiographical Dictation of 18 June 1906
- Description: Let me consider that I have now been dead...
Autobiographical Dictation of 19 June 1906
- Description: Our Bible reveals to us the character of our God...
Autobiographical Dictation of 20 June 1906
- Description: There are one or two curious defects about Bibles...
Autobiographical Dictation of 22 June 1906
- Description: For two years, now, Christianity has been repeating, in Russia...
Autobiographical Dictation of 23 June 1906
- Description: Let us now consider the real God...
Autobiographical Dictation of 25 June 1906
- Description: It is to these celestial bandits...
Autobiographical Dictation of 17 July 1906
- Description: Five or six weeks ago, when I was dictating...
Autobiographical Dictation of 30 July 1906
- Description: I am back again in this country house...
Autobiographical Dictation of 31 July 1906
- Description: Colonel Harvey will arrive here to-night...
Autobiographical Dictation of 6 August 1906
- Description: Let us go back three months, now...
Autobiographical Dictation of 7 August 1906
- Description: Who saves my soul does me a service...
Autobiographical Dictation of 8 August 1906
- Description: There is one great trouble about dictating...
Autobiographical Dictation of 10 August 1906
- Description: This morning's mail brings me this clipping...
Autobiographical Dictation of 11 August 1906
- Description: From the beginning of time, philosophers of all breeds...
Autobiographical Dictation of 13 August 1906
- Description: The group sat on the veranda...
Autobiographical Dictation of 15 August 1906
- Description: My school days began when I was four years and a half old...
Autobiographical Dictation of 27 August 1906
- Description: Several weeks ago, in Chapter XLI...
Autobiographical Dictation of 28 August 1906
- Description: Higbie's reply had come...
Autobiographical Dictation of 29 August 1906
- Description: In this morning's mail comes a letter from a stranger...
Autobiographical Dictation of 30 August 1906
- Description: I was never willing to destroy...
Autobiographical Dictation of 31 August 1906
- Description: Around about here, in the New Hampshire woods and hills...
Autobiographical Dictation of 3 September 1906
- Description: We carried out our project at the club...
Autobiographical Dictation of 4 September 1906
- Description: There is one thing which fills me with wonder...
Autobiographical Dictation of 5 September 1906
- Description: It is years since I have examined the Children's Record...
Autobiographical Dictation of 7 September 1906
- Description: For good or for evil, we continue to educate Europe...
Autobiographical Dictation of 10 September 1906
- Description: I have not yet finished about the British Premier...
Autobiographical Dictation of 2 October 1906
- Description: I have been to New York and to Fairhaven again...
Autobiographical Dictation of 3 October 1906
- Description: Yesterday I mentioned that on 22d of September...
Autobiographical Dictation of 4 October 1906
- Description: It was my purpose, yesterday morning, to talk about...
Autobiographical Dictation of 5 October 1906
- Description: Several weeks ago I injected into one of these chapters...
Autobiographical Dictation of 8 October 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 9 October 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 10 October 1906
- Description: I couldn't finish, yesterday...
Autobiographical Dictation of 11 October 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 12 October 1906
- Description: I broke off there yesterday...
Autobiographical Dictation of 15 October 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography...
Autobiographical Dictation of 16 October 1906
- Description: Warner is gone. Stockton is gone....
Autobiographical Dictation of 30 October 1906
- Description: I remember a circumstance in support of this conviction....
Autobiographical Dictation of 7 November 1906
- Description: The first time I was in Egypt....
Autobiographical Dictation of 8 November 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 19 November 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 20 November 1906
- Description: Georgia Cayvan is dead....
Autobiographical Dictation of 21 November 1906
- Description: Before I close this talk about methods of raising money....
Autobiographical Dictation of 22 November 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 23 November 1906
- Description: I was supposing that I had said, yesterday....
Autobiographical Dictation of 24 November 1906
- Description: I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because....
Autobiographical Dictation of 30 November 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 1 December 1906
- Description: An exciting event in our village (Hannibal)....
Autobiographical Dictation of 2 December 1906
- Description: In 1847 we were living in a large white house....
Autobiographical Dictation of 3 December 1906
- Description: One evening we dined with the C.'s....
Autobiographical Dictation of 5 December 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 6 December 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 13 December 1906
- Description: As regards the coming American monarchy....
Autobiographical Dictation of 17 December 1906
- Description: As I have already remarked, "Old Times on the Mississippi"....
Autobiographical Dictation of 18 December 1906
- Description: I went to Washington, a fortnight ago....
Autobiographical Dictation of 19 December 1906
- Description: That was an odd mission of mine....
Autobiographical Dictation of 20 December 1906
- Description: Six months ago, when I was recalling early days....
Autobiographical Dictation of 21 December 1906
- Description: I wish to insert here some pages....
Autobiographical Dictation of 26 December 1906
- Description: I lately received a letter from England....
Autobiographical Dictation of 27 December 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 28 December 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation of 29 December 1906
- Description: From Susy's Biography....
Autobiographical Dictation 6 January 1907
- Description: That reminds me....
Autobiographical Dictation 9 January 1907
- Description: There has been an incident....
Autobiographical Dictation 15 January 1907
- Description: The human race was always interesting....
Autobiographical Dictation 17 January 1907
- Description: Helen Keller dined with us yesterday evening....
Autobiographical Dictation 22 January 1907
- Description: In an earlier chapter I inserted....
Autobiographical Dictation 23 January 1907
- Description: The proverb says that Providence protects children....
Autobiographical Dictation 28 January 1907
- Description: In the middle of the afternoon, day before yesterday....
Autobiographical Dictation 29 January 1907
- Description: Those hand readings were made two years ago....
Autobiographical Dictation 30 January 1907
- Description: The political and commercial morals of the United States....
Autobiographical Dictation 1 February 1907
- Description: Last summer I dictated some remarks....
Autobiographical Dictation 4 February 1907
- Description: In these days things are happening which bring Bret Harte....
Autobiographical Dictation 11 February 1907
- Description: Two months ago (December 6) I was dictating....
Autobiographical Dictation 12 February 1907
- Description: Those stars indicate the long chapter....
Autobiographical Dictation 19 February 1907
- Description: About thirty-five years ago (1872)....
Autobiographical Dictation 25 February 1907
- Description: As I have said once or twice already....
Autobiographical Dictation 26 February 1907
- Description: Last week I started a club....
Autobiographical Dictation 27 February 1907
- Description: I am not a history maker....
Autobiographical Dictation 28 February 1907
- Description: The most lurid cause celebre of modern ages....
Front Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
- Description: Front matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
Autobiographical Dictation of 1 March 1907
- Description: Isabella Beecher Hooker is dead. I first made her acquaintance about forty years ago...
Editorial Preface (The Ashcroft Lyon Manuscript)
- Description: Mark Twain wrote this long manuscript, which he left untitled, over a period of more than four months...
The Ashcroft Lyon Manuscript
- Description: In your day, a hundred years hence, this Manuscript will have a distinct value...
The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript Page
- Description: Transcription of the Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript and the editorial introduction to the transcription
Appendixes
- Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Working Notes for Ashcroft-Lyon, Sketch by Warner, Sketch by Moffett...
Appendixes, Volume 1
- Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Speech at the Seventieth Birthday Dinner, ...Souvenir of the Event, Speech at the Players, Previous Publication
Appendixes, Volume 2
- Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Previous Publication
Appendixes, Volume 3
- Description: A Brief Chronology, Family Biographies, Clemens's Working Notes for "The Ashcroft-Lyon MS," 1873 Notes, 1899 Notes, Proposition for a Postal Check, Ashcroft-Lyon Chronology, Ashcroft to Stanchfield, Previous Publication
Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
- Description: Back matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
- Description: Back matter published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
Back Matter for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
- Description: Back matter (Note on the Text, Word Division, References, Index) published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
Photographs
- Description: Photographs published in Mark Twain Project edition of Autobiography of Mark Twain
Photographs from Volume 1
- Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Photographs from Volume 2
- Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
Photographs from Volume 3
- Description: Photographs published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
Front and Back Matter from the Mark Twain Project Edition
- Description: Title pages, tables of contents, acknowledgments, introductions, biographies, word division, and indexes from Autobiography of Mark Twain, as published by Mark Twain Project