Complete Humor Satire History of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".


Contents

Eve's Diary, Complete

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Mark Twain's Speeches

A Dog's Tale

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Extracts from Adam's Diary

The Stolen White Elephant

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance

Chapters from My Autobiography

The American Claimant

A Horse's Tale

The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

The Mysterious Stranger-

An unfinished novella that Mark Twain worked on periodically from roughly 1890 until his death in 1910. The body of the work is a serious social commentary addressing Twain's ideas of the Moral Sense and the ''damned human race.'' Published posthumously in 1916 by Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine.

Eve's Diary, Complete -

This story is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by her mate Adam, including meeting and getting to know him, and exploring the world around her, Eden. The story then jumps 40 years into the future after the Fall and expulsion from Eden.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today-

The novel concerns the efforts of a poor rural Tennessee family to become affluent by selling in a timely manner the 75,000 acres (300 km2) of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas "Si" Hawkins. After several adventures in Tennessee, the family fails to sell the land and Si Hawkins dies. The rest of the Hawkins story line focuses on their beautiful adopted daughter, Laura. In the early 1870s, she travels to Washington, D.C. to become a lobbyist. With a senator's help, she enters Society and attempts to persuade Congressmen to require the federal government to purchase the land.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg-

Hadleyburg enjoys the reputation of being an "incorruptible" town known for its responsible, honest people that are trained to avoid temptation. However, at some point the people of Hadleyburg manage to offend a passing stranger, and he vows to get his revenge by corrupting the town.

The Stolen White Elephant-

An elderly gentleman, an Englishman in the British civil service in India, who told the story to Twain during a train ride and is in charge of transporting the white elephant. Chief Inspector Blunt, a detective who is in charge of finding the lost elephant; he first receives the report of the elephant's disappearance.