MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies

This collection of travel books, essays, speeches, letters and autobiographical writings illustrates the other side of the man known as Mark Twain.

Travel Books

The Innocents Abroad

Roughing It

Old Times on the Mississippi

A Tramp Abroad

Life on the Mississippi

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Essays, Satires & Articles

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

What Is Man? And Other Essays

Editorial Wild Oats

Advice to Youth

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Concerning the Jews

To the Person Sitting in Darkness

To My Missionary Critics

Christian Science

Queen Victoria's Jubilee

Essays on Paul Bourget

The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained

In Defence of Harriet Shelley

Mrs. Eddy in Error

Stirring Times in Austria

The Czar's Soliloquy

King Leopold's Soliloquy

Adam's Soliloquy

Essays on Copyrights

Other Essays

The Complete Speeches

The Complete Letters

Chapters from my Autobiography

Biography

Mark Twain: A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He is best known for his two novels – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but his satirical stories and travel books are also widely popular. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned him praise from critics and peers. He was lauded as the greatest American humorist of his age.