Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 – April 21 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
Although Twain was confounded by financial and business affairs, his humor and wit were keen, and he enjoyed immense public popularity. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. In 1907, crowds at the Jamestown Exposition thronged just to get a glimpse of him. He had dozens of famous friends, including William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Nikola Tesla, Helen Keller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." Twain died in 1910 and is buried in Elmira, New York.

A Tramp Abroad - Travel book. Sequel to Innocents Abroad. In plain text, zipped plain text, or zipped HTML, at Project Gutenberg.
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Chapters from Mark Twain's Autobiography - Complete searchable text of the 25 chapters published in the North American Review in 1906-1907.
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Classic Bookshelf - Texts of Following The Equator, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective, The Prince and the Pauper and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. With adjustable sized text and automatic bookmarking.
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Ever the Twain Shall Meet - Online texts of a wide selection of his works, as well as links to other sites with online texts.
Following the Equator: A Guide - Guide to texts, biography and criticism of Mark Twain's last travel book, from Jim Zwick.
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Innocents Abroad - Etext and study resources at the University of Virginia.
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Life on the Mississippi - E-text version.
Life on the Mississippi: A Guide - Guide to texts of the book, biography, criticism, and the legacies of the book that fused Mark Twain and the Mississippi River in American culture, from Jim Zwick.
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Literature Network: Life on the Mississippi - Chapter indexed HTML of the complete text. Includes a search feature and author biography.
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Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance - An etext of the 1871 work consisting of color PDF scans of the entire text.
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography - In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
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Mark Twain's Speeches - In plain text, and as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
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Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots - A poem by Twain.
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Reception of Huckleberry Finn - Essay on the American reception of the novel in 1885.
Search the Mark Twain Reviews - Searchable reviews of Twain's works.
Search Twain's Works - Searchable etexts of his works.
The Innocents Abroad: A Guide - Guide to texts of the book and related writings, biography and criticism, from Jim Zwick.
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The Speeches of Mark Twain - The complete texts of the author's speeches from the 1910 edition and other sources, with corrected dates and a new chronological index.
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The Territorial Enterprise - Includes works by and about Twain from his work on the Nevada newspaper.
Twain and Technology - Discussing the use of technology in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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