More than Books…
Sample list of Twain related items held by the Chappaqua Library.
DVDs
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court [DVD]: 1952 musical version of Mark Twain’s humorous novel about a turn-of-the-century blacksmith who is knocked unconscious and awakens in sixth-century Camelot
Dangerous Intimacy [DVD]: The untold story of Mark Twain’s final years.
History of the Mississippi River [DVD]: The legends, legacy & lore. 2005
Mark Twain [DVD]: Directed by Ken Burns
Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook [DVD]: Masterful tour de force which captures the timelessness of Twain’s stinging commentary
The Adventures of Huck Finn [DVD]: 1993 Walt Disney Pictures
The Adventures of Mark Twain [DVD]: Warner Bros. Pictures; screenplay by Alan Lemay, directed by Irving Rapper.
The Prince and the Pauper [DVD]: Classic 1937 film with Errol Flynn and Claude Rains
The Prince and the Pauper [DVD]: Walt Disney Cartoon of Twain’s story, starring Mickey Mouse.
Tom Sawyer [DVD]: 1973 musical adaptation with Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster and Celeste Holm
Music
American Dreamer [CD]: Songs of Stephen Foster
American Visions [CD]: Contains Mississippi Suite by Ferde Grofe, The Housatonic at Stockbridge by Charles Ives, and Mark Twain: Portrait for Orchestra by Jerome Kern.
Appalachian Journey [CD]: Contains arrangements of music composed by Stephen Foster which was popular during Mark Twain’s lifetime.
Big River [CD]: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : original Broadway cast recording with music and lyrics by Roger Miller ; book by William Hauptman ; adapted from the novel by Mark Twain.
Halley’s Comet [CD]: Around the piano with Mark Twain and John Davis
Show Boat [CD]: Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, based on the novel by Edna Ferber about people living and working on a Mississippi River boat: themes close to Twain’s heart.
Spirituals in Concert [CD]: Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman, chorus and orchestra. Mark Twain, whose father owned slaves, remembered this music from his childhood.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [CD] : Music from the original motion picture.
The Adventures of Mark Twain [CD] / Max Steiner: From The Adventures of Mark Twain (Motion picture : 1944)
Mark Twain Writings
Ask our reference librarians to help you locate these titles.
- (1867) Advice for Little Girls (fiction)
- (1867) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiction)
- (1868) General Washington’s Negro Body-Servant (fiction)
- (1868) My Late Senatorial Secretaryship (fiction)
- (1869) The Innocents Abroad (non-fiction travel)
- (1870-71) Memoranda (monthly column for The Galaxy magazine)
- (1871) Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (fiction)
- (1872) Roughing It (non-fiction)
- (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (fiction)
- (1875) Sketches New and Old (fictional stories)
- (1876) Old Times on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
- (1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction)
- (1877) A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (stories)
- (1878) Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other Sketches (fictional stories)
- (1880) A Tramp Abroad (non-fiction travel)
- (1880) 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (fiction)
- (1882) The Prince and the Pauper (fiction)
- (1883) Life on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
- (1884) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction)
- (1889) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (fiction)
- (1892) The American Claimant (fiction)
- (1892) Merry Tales (fictional stories)
- (1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (fictional stories)
- (1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction)
- (1894) Pudd’n’head Wilson (fiction)
- (1896) Tom Sawyer, Detective (fiction)
- (1896) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (fiction)
- (1897) How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (non-fictional essays)
- (1897) Following the Equator (non-fiction travel)
- (1900) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction)
- (1901) Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (political satire)
- (1902) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (fiction)
- (1904) A Dog’s Tale (fiction)
- (1905) King Leopold’s Soliloquy (political satire)
- (1905) The War Prayer (fiction)
- (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (fiction)
- (1906) What Is Man? (essay)
- (1907) Christian Science (non-fiction)
- (1907) A Horse’s Tale (fiction)
- (1907) Is Shakespeare Dead? (non-fiction)
- (1909) Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (fiction)
- (1909) Letters from the Earth (fiction, published posthumously)
- (1910) Queen Victoria’s Jubilee (non-fiction, published posthumously)
- (1924) Mark Twain’s Autobiography (non-fiction, published posthumously)
- (1935) Mark Twain’s Notebook (published posthumously)
Ebooks on Overdrive
Downloads available with a Chappaqua Library Card
The Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 1
Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
The Portable Mark Twain
Audiobooks on Overdrive
Downloads available with a Chappaqua Library Card
Chapters from My Autobiography
The Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 1
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Life on the Mississippi
Schedule of Twain Programs
Download our brochure or check our online events calendar for details.
Mark Twain Family Film
Friday 10/14 4pm
Tom Sawyer-style Fence “Painting”
Saturday 10/15 2pm @ Horace Greeley House
Opening Ceremonies
Saturday 10/15 3 pm
Concert: River City Slim & the Zydeco Hogs
Sunday 10/16 3pm
Open Book Discussion: Pudd’n’head Wilson
Tuesday 10/18 7:30pm
Sam Clemens, Mark Twain & Layers Behind
Thursday 10/20 7pm
Mark Twain’s Pessimism
Friday 10/21 7pm
Reception for Gallery Exhibition “Fink Town”
Saturday 10/22 2pm
The Mark Twain Impersonation Contest
Sunday 10/23 at 4pm CANCELLED
Tour the homes of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Harford, CT
Tuesday 10/25 8am-6pm
Twain and Tiffany
Wednesday 10/26 7pm
Book Lovers: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Thursday 10/27 1pm
Teen Cool Candy “Twain” Houses
Friday 10/28 3pm
Menus in the Movies – Ken Burns’s Documentary
Part 1 Friday 10/28 7pm, Part 2 Friday 11/4 7pm
Teen Scavenger Hunt & Film with “Twain Twist”
Saturday 10/29 5pm
Mark Twain and the Minister
Sunday 10/30 4pm
Dining, Stories & Music – Kittle House dinner
Tuesday 11/1 6pm @ Crabtree’s Kittlehouse
Stowe & Twain: Effecting Social Change
Wednesday 11/2 7pm
Music & The River w/ The Chappaqua Orchestra
Saturday 11/5 8pm
Mark Twain’s Women
Wednesday 11/9 7pm
Base Ball as Mark Twain Knew It
Wednesday 11/16 7pm
Twain Readings
Friday 11/18 2pm
Film: The Adventures of Huck Finn
Friday 11/18 7 pm
We are grateful to the Friends of the Chappaqua Library for underwriting the month-long series of programs celebrating Mark Twain.
Helpful Links
“The Official Web Site of Mark Twain”
Mark Twain Classic Literature Library
The Mark Twain House and Museum
Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies