The Mark Twain anthology: great writers on his life and works

Twain Matters: A Sampler

from New Books (1869) / David Ross Locke

Memoranda: An Entertaining Article (1870) / Mark Twain

from Les Humoristes Américains: Mark Twain (The American Humorists: Mark Twain) (1872) / Thérèse Bentzon

from Mark Twain: Ein Amerikanischer "Humorist" (Mark Twain: An American "Humorist") (1880) / Eduard Engel

from Mark Twain (1897) / Eduard Engel

Mark Twain on the Mississippi (1883) / Lafcadio Hearn

from Escenas Norteamericanas (North American Scenes) (1884, 1890) / José Martí

from Mark Twain (1884) / Henry Gauthier-Villars

Mark Twain's Latest (1890) / Hamlin Garland

An Interview with Mark Twain (1890) / Rudyard Kipling

On the Art of Mark Twain (1891) / Andrew Lang

from Mark Twain in Paris (1894) / Theodor Herzl

Mark Twain: An Inquiry (1901) / William Dean Howells

from Prólogo: Mark Twain, Cuentos Escogidos ( Prologue to Mark Twain: Selected Tales) (1903) / Ángel Guerra

from L'Umorismo Americano: Mark Twain (American Humor: Mark Twain) (1905) / Livia Bruni

Letter to Samuel L. Clemens (1907) / George Bernard Shaw

Books Bound in Red (1910) / Marina Tsvetaeva

Mark Twain (1910) / Johannes V. Jensen

Mark Twain as Our Emissary (1910) / George Ade

Mark Twain (1910) / G. K. Chesterton

from Mark Twain (1910) / Jesús Castellanos

Mark Twain Protests (1916) / George Soule

from Mark Twain (1919) / H. L. Mencken

from Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain: Notes on the Eighth Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem's Death (1924) / Maks Erik

Our Mark Twain (1929) / Helen Keller

from A Short Introduction to "Eve's Diary" (1931) / Lu Xun

Una Vindicación de Mark Twain (A Vindication of Mark Twain) (1935) / Jorge Luis Borges

Mark the Double Twain (1935) / Theodore Dreiser

from The Negro in American Fiction (1937) / Sterling Brown

My Debt to Mark Twain (1937) / Grant Wood

Mark Twain - the Licensed Jester (1943) / George Orwell

from Introduction to The Portable Mark Twain (1946) / Bernard DeVoto

Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! (1948) / Leslie Fiedler

Introduction to Huckleberry Finn (1950) / T. S. Eliot

Huck and Oliver (1953) / W. H. Auden

Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity (1953) / Ralph Ellison

Yarn-Spinner in the American Vein (1957) / Wallace Stegner

Twain in the Slums (1959) / Mike Gold

from Mark Twain on the Bed of Procrustes (1959) / Yan Bereznitsky

from The Question Is Significantly More Profound: A Letter to Charles Neider (1960) / Yan Bereznitsky

from Mark Twain: Exposer of the "Dollar Empire" (1960) / Lao She

Mark Twain and Sholem Aleichem (1963) / Edward Field

from Mark Twain in America (1963) / Abel Startsev

From An American Traveler's Dreams - Huckleberry Finn Who Goes to Hell (1966) / Kenzaburo Oe

from The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970) / John Seelye

Last Laugh (1978) / Robert Penn Warren

Huck Finn, Alive at 100 (1984) / Norman Mailer

from I Been There Before (1985) / David Carkeet

from Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (1989) / Chuck Jones

Introduction to How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1996) / David Bradley

Introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1996) / E. L. Doctorow

Introduction to Mark Twain's Speeches (1996) / Hal Holbrook

Introduction to 1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead?: "Deliberate Lewdness" and the Lure of Immortality (1996) / Erica Jong

Introduction to The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Reading Young, Reading Old (1996) / Ursula K. Le Guin

Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996) / Toni Morrison

Introduction to Following the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays (1996) / Gore Vidal

Some Comments on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Kurt Vonnegut at the Age of Seventy-Two (1996) / Kurt Vonnegut

from What's Up with Mad Mark Twain? (1996) / Ralph Wiley

from Callus on My Soul (with Shelia P. Moss) (2000) / Dick Gregory

What Hath Happened to "The War-Prayer"? (2006) / Ron Powers

Is He Alive? (2008) / Michael Blakemore

Money as an American Character and the Legacy of Permission: Or How Mark Twain Taught Me That It Was Okay to Talk About Money (2009) / Min Jin Lee

America's Original Superstar (2008) / Roy Blount Jr.