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But if you restrict yourself to the novels and short stories you probably will do best. 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.

Copied to Clipboard Mark Twain's literary works cover the writing of novels, essays, letters, speeches, plays, poems and short stories. The first work by Mark Twain that made him a recognizable name in literature was Innocents Abroad, published in The book was not well received, a fact that discouraged him from pursuing the literary career that he really wanted.

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During the ensuing years, Twain wrote for various publications and went on lecture tours around the world. He married, fathered a son and quickly amassed heavy debt. But, Innocents Abroad caught on, selling over 67, copies in one year, which prompted the American Publishing Company to commission another of Mark Twain's works.

Thus followed Roughing It, published in ; it was another travel book based mostly on his own experiences with the post-Gold Rush mining activity. This work, though, was not as successful as Innocents Abroad, and Twain fell deeper into debt. After touring Europe on a lecture junket, Twain's life turned around.

His newest work, The Gilded Age, which he collaborated upon with Charles Dudley Warner, was published inand marked him as a true author. Twain would no longer be considered just a journalist.

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Following the success of this book, Twain's literary works appeared regularly. The life and works of Mark Twain covered seventy-four years of time, and afterward with the publication of his own autobiography published one-hundred years after his death in InVolume One of his three-part personal account of his life went on sale to honor his wish that it would never be published before that date.

A complete list of Marks Twain's works follows:The Complete Short Stories and Famous Essays of Mark Twain: One Volume Editions and a great selection of similar Used, New and Collectible Books available now at .

Complete Essays of Mark Twain by Neider, Charles and a great selection of similar Used, New and Collectible Books available now at regardbouddhiste.com This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays – is kept in print by a gift to the Guardians of American Letters Fund from Rita Rogillio Odom, in memory of her husband Guy Roy Odom.

Mark Twain once said, "To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing." Twain is famous for "Tom Sawyer," "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and other books, along with essays, critical work, and more.

The complete essays of Mark Twain [pseud.] / Now collected for the first time, edited and with an introduction by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain.

So far, over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays, letters, speeches) were added to PG catalog. Yesterday, in a Project Gutenberg RSS feed of new releases a new title appeared: The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain.

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