Mark Twain Tonight is a one man play starring Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain. His first performance as Twain was in 1954 in a college in Pennsylvania. Holbrook won a Tony Award for his performance as Twain. During this play, Holbrook tells some of Twain's stories or give some jokes about Twain's life.
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| Novels | |
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| Short stories |
- "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
- "Cannibalism in the Cars"
- "General Washington's Negro Body-Servant"
- "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship"
- "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls"
- "A Literary Nightmare"
- "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage"
- "The Invalid's Story"
- "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn"
- "1601"
- "The Stolen White Elephant"
- "Luck"
- "The Million Pound Bank Note"
- "A Double Barrelled Detective Story"
- "Those Extraordinary Twins"
- "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
- "A Dog's Tale"
- "Extracts from Adam's Diary"
- "The War Prayer"
- "Eve's Diary"
- "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"
- "My Platonic Sweetheart"
- "The Private Life of Adam and Eve"
- "Advice to Little Girls"
- "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine"
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| Collections |
- Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
- Sketches New and Old
- A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime
- Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches
- Mark Twain's Library of Humor
- Merry Tales
- The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
- The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
- The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
- The Washoe Giant in San Francisco
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| Plays |
- Is He Dead?
- Colonel Sellers
- Colonel Sellers as a Scientist
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| Essays |
- "The Awful German Language"
- "On the Decay of the Art of Lying"
- "Advice to Youth"
- "English As She Is Taught"
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- "Concerning the Jews"
- "A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth"
- "To the Person Sitting in Darkness"
- "To My Missionary Critics"
- "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany"
- "What Is Man?"
- "Queen Victoria's Jubilee"
- "The United States of Lyncherdom"
- "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
- Letters from the Earth
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| Non-fiction |
- Territorial Enterprise letters
- Letters from Hawaii
- The Innocents Abroad
- Roughing It
- Old Times on the Mississippi
- A Tramp Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Following the Equator
- Is Shakespeare Dead?
- Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography)
- Mark Twain's Notebook
- King Leopold's Soliloquy
- The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
- Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire
- The Bible According to Mark Twain
- Christian Science
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| Speeches |
- "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"
- "Votes for Women"
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| Places and events |
- Family cabin
- Birthplace State Historic Site
- Boyhood home and museum
- Mark Twain Cave
- Mark Twain in Nevada
- Territorial Enterprise
- Sagebrush School
- Mark Twain House
- Stormfield
- Twain–Ament indemnities controversy
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| Popular culture | |
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| Family |
- Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife)
- Susy Clemens (daughter)
- Clara Clemens (daughter)
- Jean Clemens (daughter)
- John M. Clemens (father)
- Orion Clemens (brother)
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