Mark Twain's library

The books from Mark Twain's library now catalogued at the Mark Twain Papers in Berkeley and at Elmira College, with books at Quarry Farm he read and wrote in. His library was sold off after his death, so this is only the part libraries have traced.

234 books

Books by Mark Twain →

The best-known books on these shelves

All 234 books, by author

AMore Fables · George Ade
The poems of a child · Julia Cooley Altrocchi
India revisited · Sir Edwin Arnold
BThe master · Irving Bacheller
A story of the golden age · James Baldwin
The pith of astronomy <without mathematics> · Samuel G. Bayne
A summer in England with Henry Ward Beecher · Henry Ward Beecher (read)
The Beecher trial · Henry Ward Beecher
Ethel · J. J. Bell
The adventures of Buffalo Bill · Buffalo Bill,
The love letters of Bismarck · Otto Bismarck
German home life · Marie Gräfin von Bothmer
Modern English Literature · Henry H. Breen
Agamemnon · Robert Browning
Balaustion's Adventure; Aristophanes' Apology; Pacchiarotto; And Other Poems · Robert Browning
Dramas · Robert Browning
Dramatis personae · Robert Browning
Fifine At The Fair · Robert Browning
Men and women · Robert Browning
Men and women and Sordella · Robert Browning
Rabbi Ben Ezra · Robert Browning
The poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning · Robert Browning (read)
The ring and the book · Robert Browning
L'avocat Patelin · Brueys
Early French Lessons · Henri Bué
The buried cities of Ceylon · S. M. Burrows
Bismarck in the Franco-German war, 1870-1871 · Wilhelm Busch
Pigs is pigs · Ellis Parker Butler
CGallantry · Branch Cabell
Salem witchcraft: comprising More wonders of the invisible world · Robert Calef
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha · John Canne
Sartor resartus · Thomas Carlyle (read)
The French Revolution · Thomas Carlyle (read)
Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there · Lewis Carroll
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte · Adelbert von Chamisso
The church of St. Bunco · Gordon Clark
For the Term of His Natural Life · Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
The Australian edition of the selected works of Marcus Clarke, together with a biography and monograph of the deceased author · Marcus Clarke
The evolution of man and his mind · Shobal Vail Clevenger
Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself · Frances Power Cobbe
Notes on the United States of North America · George Combe
Chronicles of the little tot · Edmund Vance Cooke
Elizabeth, or, The exiles of Siberia · Madame Cottin
Diamonds · William Crookes
Emerald and ermine · Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen
Forget-Me-Not · Lillian E. Curtis
Three visits to Knock · Mary Francis Cusack
DHousehold Book of Poetry · Charles A. Dana
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex · Charles Darwin
The great English letter-writers · W. J. Dawson Dawson
A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens (read)
Barnaby Rudge · Charles Dickens (read)
Hard Times · Charles Dickens (read)
Master Humphrey's Clock · Charles Dickens (read)
Nicholas Nickleby · Charles Dickens (read)
Old Curiosity Shop [1/2] · Charles Dickens (read)
Letters from a Chinese official · G. Lowes Dickinson
Lothair · Benjamin Disraeli (read)
The great fight · William Henry Drummond
Ange Pitou · Alexandre Dumas
Little masterpieces of English poetry · Henry Van Dyke
EA flower of Puritanism (Julia Jones Beecher), 1826-1905 · Annis Ford Eastman
Retrospection and introspection · Mary Baker Eddy
Science and health · Mary Baker Eddy
Side lights on Mary Baker Eddy-Glover-Science church trustees controversy · Mary Baker Eddy
The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards
Middlemarch · George Eliot
Love among the mistletoe, and poems · James B. Elmore
The silent door · Florence Wilkinson Evans
FHawthorne · Annie Fields
A century of science, and other essays · John Fiske
The Monarch And Other Poems · John H. Flagg
Indian domestic architecture · Lockwood De Forest
The Island of Enchantment · Justus Miles Forman
A humble romance · Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
GThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Edward Gibbon
The tomboy at work · Jeannette L. Gilder
Sea and shore · Martha L. Preston Goddard
Faust · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (read)
Orlóff and his wife · Maksim Gorky
Joan of Arc · Ronald Sutherland Gower
Love in letters · Allan Grant
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (2 volumes in 1) · Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant · Ulysses S. Grant (read)
Forty years observation of music and the drama · Robert Grau
Poets and dreamers · Lady Gregory
The Greville memoirs · Charles Greville
Sixty years with Plymouth Church · Stephen Morrell Griswold
The heavens · Amédée Guillemin
HSketches of Palestine · Edward Payson Hammond
Tales of the Argonauts and Other Sketches · Bret Harte
The Luck of Roaring Camp · Bret Harte
The Twins of Table Mountain · Bret Harte
The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories · Bret Harte
Women, etc · George Brinton McClellan Harvey
The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fond Adventures · Maurice Hewlett
Im Paradiese: Roman in sieben Büchern · Paul Heyse
Kinder der Welt · Paul Heyse
Decisive battles of America · Ripley Hitchcock
History of Marion County, Missouri · R. I. Holcombe
A foregone conclusion · William Dean Howells
Between the Dark and the Daylight · William Dean Howells
Seven English Cities · William Dean Howells
The Mother and the Father · William Dean Howells
The parlor car · William Dean Howells
The register · William Dean Howells
The Works of Shakespeare · Henry Norman Hudson (read)
IThe ghosts · Robert Green Ingersoll
The adventures of Captain Bonneville · Washington Irving
JSailors' knots · W. W. Jacobs
Memoirs of the loves of poets · James S. Jameson (read)
The Christmas Kalends of Provence and Some Other Provencal Festivals · Thomas A. Janvier
History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands · James Jackson Jarves
Tales of the cloister · Elizabeth Garver Jordan
KDie Leute von Seldwyla · Gottfried Keller
Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall · Henry Kendall
Blessed Joan of Arc (1412-1431) · Lady Amabel Kerr
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse, Edward Fitzgerald · Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam · Omar Khayyam
The Legends of the Rhine from Basle to Rotterdam · F. J Kiefer
Hans Ibeles in London · Johanna Kinkel
Collected verse of Rudyard Kipling · Rudyard Kipling
From sea to sea and other sketches; Letters of travel · Rudyard Kipling
The light that failed · Rudyard Kipling
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures : Accompanied by a Compendium : Embracing a New Systematick Order of Parsing, a New System of Punctuation, Exercises in False Syntax, and a System of Philosophical Grammar, in Notes · Samuel Kirkham
The popular history of England · Charles Knight (read)
The wit and humour of the Persians · Mehrjibhai Nosherwanji Kuka
LA history of England in the eighteenth century · William Edward Hartpole Lecky (read)
History of European morals · William Edward Hartpole Lecky (read)
History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe · William Edward Hartpole Lecky (read)
Fabeln: Drei Bücher · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Laokoon Oder über Die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Godfrey's quest · Lady Lindsay
Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kenelm Chillingly · Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
MWilliam Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man · Hamilton Wright Mabie
The history of England from the accession of James II · Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
A lad of the O'Friels · Seumas MacManus
Retrospect of Western Travel; Volume 2 · Harriet Martineau
Dream life · Ik Marvel
Aspects of fiction and other ventures in criticism · Brander Matthews
Dr. John Brown and his sister Isabella · E. T. McLaren
Jeanne d'Arc · Jules Michelet
Palm branches .. · S. M Mills
Joan of Arc · Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
The treasury of song for the home circle · D. H. Morrison
The correspondence of John Lothrop Motley · John Lothrop Motley (read)
Henry VIII and his court · L. Muhlbach
The Complete Phonographer, and Reporter's Guide · James Eugene Munson
NDie wunderpfeife · Gustav Nieritz
OJoan of Arc · John O'Hagan
PFrom Van Dweller to Commuter: The Story of a Strenuous Quest for a Home and .. · Albert Bigelow Paine
The bread line · Albert Bigelow Paine
Routledge's guide to London and its suburbs · George Frederick Pardon
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV · Francis Parkman
The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada · Francis Parkman
The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century · Francis Parkman
The Oregon Trail · Francis Parkman
Peck's fun · George W. Peck
The river · Eden Phillpotts
Seven Thousand Words Often Mispronounced!. 45th Thousand Carefully Rev .. · William Henry P. Phyfe
Plutarch's lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Aristides and Cato the Censor · Plutarch
Documentary outline of the Philippine case · Louis F. Post
Tent Life in the Holy Land · William Cowper Prime (read)
Rejected of Men · Howard Pyle
Yankee Doodle · Howard Pyle
QHypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice · John D. Quackenbos
History of the big bonanza · Dan De Quille
RAlone in China, and other stories · Julian Ralph
Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation · Leopold von Ranke
An eagle flight · José Rizal
Shakespeare the boy · W. J. Rolfe
A Square Deal · Theodore Roosevelt
Irene Iddesleigh · Amanda McKittrick Ros
The Meisterschaft System · Richard S Rosenthal
Hand and soul · Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The poetical works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti · Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The enemy conquered · S. Watson Royston
SThe memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the reign of Louis XIV and the regency · Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
Gute Fridolin und der Böse Dietrich · Christoph von Schmid
Guy Mannering · Walter Scott
Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ... · Walter Scott
The Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets] · William Shakespeare (read)
Dramatic Works of Sheridan and Goldsmith. with Goldsmith's Poems · Richard Brinsley Goldsmith Sheridan
Essays, social and political · Sydney Smith
Memorial concerning conditions in the Independent state of the Kongo ... · representatives of American organizations conducting missionary work in the Kongo Conference of missionary societies
The Faerie queene · Edmund Spenser
In Reih' und Glied · Friedrich Spielhagen
Problematische Naturen · Friedrich Spielhagen
A Lowden Sabbath morn · Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pocket R.L.S · Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula · Bram Stoker
The mystery of the sea · Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom's Cabin · Harriet Beecher Stowe
Voices of doubt and trust · Volney Streamer
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars · Suetonius
Three plays of Shakespeare · Algernon Charles Swinburne
THistory of English Literature · Hippolyte Taine
Notes on England · Hippolyte Taine
Beasley's Christmas Party · Booth Tarkington
Harold · Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
The poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate · Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson... · Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Asia and Europe · Meredith Townsend
Selections from the writings of Lord Macaulay · George Otto Trevelyan (read)
The life and letters of Lord Macaulay · George Otto Trevelyan (read)
King Leopold's Soliloquy · Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Library of Humor · Mark Twain (read)
Mark Twain's sketches · Mark Twain
The choice humorous works of Mark Twain · Mark Twain (read)
The Writings of Mark Twain (25 volumes) · Mark Twain (read)
The Gilded Age · Mark; Warner Twain (read)
VRoman law in mediaeval Europe · Paul Vinogradoff
WThe Wooing of Malkatoon & Commodus · Lew Wallace
Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume Two · Izaak Walton
As We Go · Charles Dudley Warner
Studies in the South and West with comments on Canada · Charles Dudley Warner
The Savage Club · Aaron Watson
A practical dictionary of the English language · Noah Webster
Glück auf! · E Werner
Vineta · E Werner
David Harum · Edward Noyes Westcott
The House of Mirth · Edith Wharton
Love-in-a-mist · Post Wheeler
A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom · Andrew Dickson White
Leaves of Grass · Walt Whitman
Sonnets and songs · Helen Hay Whitney
The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier · John Greenleaf Whittier
Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Baireuth, Sister of Frederick the Great · Margravine Wilhelmine
Sketches of creation · Alexander Winchell
Bacteria and their products · G. Sims Woodhead
Early Travels in Palestine · Thomas Wright
ZRome · Émile Zola

Titles we couldn't find (16)

The catalogue lists these, but they have no page here: some are rare or long out of print, and some are pamphlets or magazine issues.

[German school book] · no copy found online
A Winter Holiday in Summer Lands · Julia Newell Jackson · 1890 · no copy found online
Barry Cornwall and Some of His Friends · Annie Fields · 1876 · no copy found online
Der Vampyr. Novelle aus Bulgarien, von Hans Wachenhusen · Hans Wachenhusen · 1878 · no copy found online
Erstes Lesebuch : leichte Erzählungen für ganz kleine artige Kinder von drei bis sechs Jahren · Ranudo Fränkel · 1877 · no copy found online
Helen Keller souvenir : no. 2, 1892-1899 : commemorating the Harvard final examination for admission to Radcliffe College, June 29-30, 1899
Indo-Anglian literature · 1887 · no copy found online
Le voile tombe : caricatures · Ragnvald Blix · 1908 · no copy found online
Pearl Island · Andrew Caster · 1903 · no copy found online
Pressburger Zeitung : erstes stüct, Sonnabend, den 14. Julii 1764 · Internet Archive
The Cuban Spanish American War · C. M. F. Dressel · no copy found online
The genteel A.B · A. J. Dawson · 1907 · no copy found online
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command : appointed to be read in churches
The Shadow of the House · Ivan Strannik · 1906 · no copy found online
Two hundred old-time songs : containing the words and music of the choicest gems of the old and familiar songs we used to sing when we were young · no copy found online
Wyman's comic almanac for the times, 1856 · 1855 · no copy found online

Source: Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies