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“High & fine literature is wine, & mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”
Mark Twain, 1887


Mark Twain's writings

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The Mark Twain Project's editions of the writings are established using the earliest relevant sources and the holdings of the Mark Twain Papers collection at The Bancroft Library. The goal is to produce accurate, fully annotated texts that come as close as possible to realizing Mark Twain's intentions.

Most of these texts have been digitized from the Mark Twain Project's printed volumes. Although every effort has been made to ensure accurate conversion, errors do persist. MTPO searches out and corrects these errors, and welcomes input from users.