Mark Twain

At school or in a public library, begin by using the Computer Catalog (Lemon Bay's OPAC)
to do a Subject Search using the following

Search Terms -
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and Interpretation
Novelists, American -- 19th Century
Clemens, Samuel, 1835-1910
Authors, American

Call Numbers for Books on this subject are usually
813 OR 818
See Also: Biographies
See Also: Fiction

General Encyclopedias are a good starting place to get basic, background information about a subject.
Use the Index (usually the last volume) to locate your subject.
The following sets of encyclopedias are available in our media center:

  • The World Book Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Compton's Encyclopedia

    • Print Resources - Circulating Books:
    The Importance of Mark Twain - 818 PRE
    Readings on the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin - 813 REA
    Life on the Mississippi - 817 TWA
    Readings on Mark Twain - 818 REA
    The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors : Biographical Sketches -920 DRE
    Critical Essays on Mark Twain - 818.409 BUD
    Cyclopedia of World Authors - 803 MAG
    The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - 813 TWA

    Print Resources - Reference Books:
    Writers for Young Adults - REF 810.9 WRI
    Masterplots - REF 803 MAG
    Literary Lifelines, Vol 10 - REF 809 LIT
    American Writers, Vol IV - REF 810 AME
    Lives and Works: Young Adult Authors, Vol 8 - REF 810.8 LIV

    Literature and Its Times, Vol. 2 - REF 809 Online Databases -
    If you plan on accessing these sites from home,
    be sure to ask the media specialists for the password-you'll need it!
    Grolier Multimedia Online
    eLibrary

    Websites -

    Mark Twain's Interactive Scrapbook (PBS) - http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/
    Everything Mark Twain - http://www.easylit.com/marktwain/
    Mark Twain in His Times - http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
    Is Huck Finn a Racist Book? - http://www.salwen.com/mtrace.html

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