| Concerning the Jews: Written after observing anti-Semitism in Vienna. |
| Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses: Twain's criticism of Deerslayer. |
| Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses: In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg. |
| How to Tell a Story: Complete text of Mark Twain's essay on the art of story telling with examples showing the importance of the pause. |
| How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays: In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg. |
| Is Shakespeare Dead?: Etext. |
| Is Shakespeare Dead?: In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg. |
| King Leopold's Soliloquy: Complete searchable text and illustrations of Mark Twain's denunciation of Leopold's rule of the Congo. |
| Life on the Mississippi: Suppressed Chapter: Chapter about political conformity and crime in the South, removed by the publisher. |
| The Awful German Language: Comic discussion of the difficulties which he encountered in learning the language. |
| The Death of Jean: On the death of his youngest daughter on Christmas Eve of 1909. |
| What is a Man? And Other Essays: The Death of Jean, The Turning-Point of My Life, How to Make History Dates Stick, The Memorable Assassination, A Scrap of Curious History, Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty, At the Shrine of St. Wagner, William Dean Howells, English as She is Taught, A Simplified Alphabet, As Concerns Interpreting the Deity, Concerning Tobacco, Taming the Bicycle, The Bee and Is Shakespeare Dead? |
| What Is Man?: Complete text of the first edition of Mark Twain's philosophical work. |
| What Is Man? and Other Essays: In plain text, or as a zip file, at Project Gutenberg. |
| What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us: In plain text, or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg. |