Short Fiction Twain, Mark: At Length ~ Collected Novelettes & Essays. v3. 05 January 2015

[GrannyGrump]

AT LENGTH: Collected Novelettes and Essays
by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 – 1910)
First published 1870 ~ 1923

Mark Twain is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Among dozens of titles, some of his works include The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and many more.

“At Length” gathers 58 works from the various Twain collections, plus several additional sources. Contents of each volume are arranged chronologically by first publication date, as provided by on-line sources. Volume 4 has some illustrations. Available as a four-volume set, or as an omnibus.

As with the "In Brief ~ Collected Short Works" I posted earlier, this is a mixed bag. Some of the pieces are rollicking good fun, but Twain also turns a blazing spotlight on some unacceptable social and moral misbehavior. You're sure to get some education along the way.



Here is a list of the contents:

Spoiler:

Volume I: Fiction

The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
The Stolen White Elephant
The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
A Curious Experience
Meisterschaft
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom Sawyer, Detective
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
A Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
The $30,000 Bequest
A Horse’s Tale
Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven
The Mysterious Stranger

Volume II: Memoirs

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
The Awful German Language
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed
Mental Telegraphy
Mental Telegraphy Again
About All Kinds of Ships
The Modern Steamer and the Obsolete Steamer
Noah’s Ark
Columbus’s Craft
A Vanished Sentiment
My Début as a Literary Person
The Turning-Point of My Life
Down the Rhône
The Lost Napoleon

Volume III: Literary Criticism

A Majestic Literary Fossil
A Cure for the Blues
The Curious Book Complete
In Defense of Harriet Shelley
Essays On Paul Bourget
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us
Mark Twain and Paul Bourget
A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses
Fenimore Cooper’s Further Literary Offenses
Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
Mrs. Eddy in Error
Mark Twain Indorses Exposure of Mrs. Eddy
Is Shakespeare Dead?

Volume IV: Social Criticism

John Camden Hotten
Mark Twain Explains
Petition Concerning Copyright
On International Copyright
American Authors and British Pirates
Open Letter Concerning Copyright
Speech on Copyright
Mark Twain’s Last Suggestion on Copyright
The Treaty with China
Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again
Stirring Times in Austria
Concerning the Jews
To the Person Sitting in Darkness
To My Missionary Critics
An Unpublished Letter on the Czar
The Czar’s Soliloquy
King Leopold’s Soliloquy
What Is Man?
Letters from the Earth

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Editorial Notes -- Formatted curly quotes, emdashes, diacritics. Restored italics where possible. Minor punctuation and spelling changes for consistency. Americanized spelling for some pieces. End-notes cross-linked to source paragraphs. Story titles cross-linked to html table of contents. Embedded fonts for titling, drop-caps, and small-caps.


Texts were retrieved from gutenberg.org, archive.org, wikisource.org, jstor.org, Making of America at cdl.library.cornell.edu, and vivovoco.rsl.ru.

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EDITED to re-do attachments (hey, they fell off!!!???)

EDIT-- Uploaded version 2. Additional content, and added linked alphabetic title index to the omnibus. Previous downloads: 234 omnibus / approx 140 each individual volume.

EDIT 5-JAN-15--- Upload version 3. More text corrections (Thank you, Jellby, for the report). Previous total downloads: 300 omnibus / approx 182 for each individual volume.

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[AlexBell]

Thanks. You've obviously done a tremendous amount of work getting the sources and putting them together.

[doubleshuffle]

You rock, grannyGrumpy. Your wonderful Twain editions are a true labour of love.




Eagerly awaiting the next instalment...

[GrannyGrump]

Uploaded At Length, version 2.
Added the novellas “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, “Tom Sawyer Detective”, “The Mysterious Stranger”; the long essays “Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy”, “Mrs. Eddy in Error”, “Letters from the Earth”, “The Treaty with China Explained”; and also a collection of short pieces about copyright, a subject always of concern to Twain.

I also added an linked alphabetic index of titles, some css tweaks, and a new cover.

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You might find some use in "The Mark Twain Collections Companion Index," available here,
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=240883
listing the locations of the 900 titles included in the collections "In Brief," "At Length," "Out Loud," and "At Large." It also includes a detailed bibliography.

[GrannyGrump]

Shame on me!
I got in a rush, and forgot to thank JELLBY for his wonderful help with this collection. Thanks to his eagle eyes, several hundred errors were corrected.

Of course, it's a bit embarrassing that I missed all those, but wonderful that they are fixed now.

[GrannyGrump]

I have uploaded version 3, with text corrections to the "new content" that was added to version 2.

A mighty big thank you to Jellby for reporting errors in the added content.

It took me far too long to get this posted, it has been completed and sitting on my hard drive for 2 months, and I thought I had already uploaded it.

Happy reading to all!

[DebbyS]

Thank you!

[GrannyGrump]

DebbyS, thank YOU! I am glad you like the Twain.