The Texts book cover

The Texts

Authoritative texts from the 1973 volume in the Mark Twain Project edition, with annotations and apparatuses, appendixes, and an introduction

Sabbath Reflections

Reflections on the Sabbath

Mr. Beecher and the Clergy

About Smells

The Indignity Put upon the Remains of George Holland by the Rev. Mr. Sabine

[Three Statements of the Eighties]

  • Composition Date: 1880–1885
  • Published in: What Is Man?

The Character of Man

[Letter from the Recording Angel]

  • Composition Date: 1887
  • Published in: What Is Man?

[Bible Teaching and Religious Practice]

  • Composition Date: 1890
  • Published in: What Is Man?

[Macfarlane]

  • Composition Date: 1894
  • Published in: What Is Man?

Contract with Mrs. T. K. Beecher

[Man's Place in the Animal World]

  • Composition Date: 1896
  • Published in: What Is Man?

[Something about Repentance]

  • Composition Date: 1898
  • Published in: What Is Man?

Corn-Pone Opinions

  • Composition Date: 1901
  • Published in: What Is Man?

The Five Boons of Life

"Was the World Made for Man?"

  • Composition Date: 1903
  • Published in: What Is Man?

God

  • Composition Date: 1905
  • Published in: What Is Man?

As Concerns Interpreting the Deity

  • Composition Date: 1905
  • Published in: What Is Man?

In the Animal's Court

  • Composition Date: 1905
  • Published in: What Is Man?

What Is Man?

Christian Science

Things a Scotsman Wants to Know

  • Composition Date: 1909
  • Published in: What Is Man?

Letters from the Earth

  • Composition Date: 1909
  • Published in: What Is Man?

"The Turning Point of My Life"

  • Composition Date: 1910
  • Published in: What Is Man?