Mark Twain Project

You've got to love a man who said that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain is a titan of Anglophone letters, with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn marking one of the great before and after moments of American literature. Mark Twain Project will make his work accessible to a digital audience.

TWAIN ONLINE

Drawing on four decades of research at the University of California, Berkeley, the Mark Twain Project offers access to all Twain texts, documents, letters and notes. "Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote." If you are interested in the technical aspect of this ambitious archival process, you will find an exhaustive account on the website.

HUCK, TOM AND THE REST

Already accessible online are Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Huck Finn and Tom Swayer among the Indians, with more on the way soon, including Mark Twain's vast autobiography and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Also online are Twain's letters from 1853-1880. You can search the texts by entering keywords and even view the text alongside revised passages and explanatory notes.

For the student of Twain, the scholar looking for a new way into the work, or the interested lay reader, this is an indispensable resource which represents a new stage in the migration from print to digital media.

21 July 2010