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
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches
1869
The 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
The 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
1885
Adventures 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
Tom 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
