Mark Twain Links for Learning

Learning resources for teachers and students about Mark Twain : books, videos, posters, links information.

Books by and about Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography - by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns: lavishly illustrated companion book to the Mark Twain PBS series; a cogent, colorful portrait of the man who forged our national identity.
Follow the Equator: A Journey Around the World - View the world through the eyes of America’s most celebrated author, Mark Twain.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain - "Mark Twain’s autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."--From the Introduction by Charles Neider
Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain - by Ron Powers; an imaginative re-creation of Samuel Clemens’s boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - anthology of Twain’s sixty short stories.
The Unabridged Mark Twain - two volumes contains original, unaltered versions of Twain’s work in chronological order.
The Quotable Mark Twain - 1,800-plus quotations included in The Quotable Mark Twain, more than half do not appear in any other collection.
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations - hundreds of Twain’s most memorable quips and comments.
The Gilded Age and Later Novels - published in the Library of America series.
The War Prayer - tells of a patriotic church service held to send young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering, telling the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy... for the destruction of human life.
Project Gutenberg Complete Mark Twain Etexts -
The Prince & the Pauper - Twain's historical tale about Edward VI and a pauper who exchange places by accident just days before Henry VIII's death.
Visual Thesaurus Language Lounge - Life on the Mississippi (Improved) - In early 2011 a new edition of Mark Twain's classic novels was published: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in one volume, edited by Auburn University professor Alan Gribben. The book has attracted some press attention for the editor's decision to systematically change two words that occur in both of Twain's books. An excellent source of discussion material for students of literature.

Video

Mark Twain Tonight (1967) Hal Holbrook video)
Famous Authors Series- Mark Twain (1996 video)
Mark Twain (A&E Biography)
The Mississippi: River Of Song - A Musical Journey Down The Mississippi [BOX SET]
Mark Twain's America - teacher review of use in American literature and culture classes.

Music CD

• River of Song: A muscial Journey Down the Mississippi [2 BOX SET CD]