Mark Twain's Publishing Career

Mark Twain’s books were published at a time when international copyright did not exist. Many were released first in England to obtain the British copyright, then in the United States. Listed here are dates for release in the United States of his major works. For further information on first editions, refer to Merle Johnson’s work A Bibliography of Mark Twain or the Bibliography of American Literature.

1867

Jumping Frog - 1867Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches

1869

Innocents AbroadThe Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress

1871

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

1872

Roughing It

1873

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner

1875

Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old

1876

Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1876The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Ah Sin, a play written with Bret Harte

1877

A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime

1878

Punch, Brothers, Punch!

1880

A Tramp Abroad

1601, or Conversation as It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tutors

1882

The Stolen White Elephant Etc.

The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages

1883

Life on the Mississippi - 1883Life on the Mississippi

1885

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 1885Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1889

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

1892

Merry Tales

The American Claimant

1893

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories

1894

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary TwinsTom Sawyer Abroad

The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

1896

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Tom Sawyer Detective

1897

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

Following the Equator

1900

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

English as She Is Taught

1901

To the Person Sitting in Darkness

1902

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

1903

My Debut as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories

A Dog’s Tale

1904

Extracts from Adam’s Diary Translated from the Original MS.

1905

King Leopold’s Soliloquy

1906

What is Man?

Eve's Diary

The $30,000 Bequest

1907

Christian Science with Notes Containing Corrections to Date

A Horse’s Tale

1909

Is Shakespeare Dead?

Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven

Queen Victoria’s Jubilee

1910

Mark Twain’s Speeches

1916

The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance

1917

What Is Man? And Other Essays

1923

Europe and Elsewhere

1924

Mark Twain’s Autobiography (edited by Albert Bigelow Paine)

1962

Letters from the Earth