Twain started his career with humorous poetry, but later became a chronicler of vanity, hypocrisy, and murder of a man. In the middle of his career with Huckleberry Finn he combines strong humor and social criticism. Twain is the master of speech talk, which helps him to create and promote distinctive American literature, American themes and language. Many of Twain's works are forbidden for various reasons. Huckleberry Finn has been banned several times in American high schools, one of the reasons being the frequent use of the word "nigga", which was widely used before the civil war when the action unfolds. A complete bibliography of his works is impossible due to the large number of works written by Twain (often in little-known newspapers) and the fact that he uses several different pseudonymes. In addition, much of his speeches and talks have been lost or have not been recorded at all.

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First journalistic appearances and travelogues

The first major work of Twain is the story "The Famous Frog Frog from Calveras County". It was published in the New York Sutherday Press for the sole reason that she did not arrive in time to be included in a collection of Warm Wilds sketches from the wild west. After this sudden success, Twain was assigned to Sacramento Union to write letters in which to tell about his travels. In the first he tells about the honeymoon trip with the Ajax steamer to Hawaii. These humorous letters are crucial for his future development as a traveling journalist. For Alta California he wrote a humorous burlesque for his trip from San Francisco to New York with a ship across the Panama Canal. On June 8, 1867, Twain sailed aboard Kooker City for five months, the result of which was "Survivors Abroad." In 1872, Twain published another travel book "In Need", which is a semi-sequel of "Surrender Abroad". It is also autobiographical part because it tracks the writer's journey to Nevada and his subsequent life to the west. The book laughs at American society in the same way that "Surrender Abroad" laughs at the European. The next work of Twilight Era Laughter: A History of Daily Time is not a travel record and is more focused on the events of the present. This is his first attempt to write a novel. It is also worth noting that the book is the only one that Twain writes in co-authorship; she was written along with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner. The next two books of Twain are drawn from his experiences on the Mississippi. "One Time on the Mississippi" is a series of sketches published in the Atlantic Muntley in 1875, and expresses the disappointment of the author of Romanticism. This book becomes the start of "Life on the Mississippi".

Late creativity

During his long career as a writer, Twain wrote a large number of essays. They appear in different newspapers and magazines. In them he puts into question social and political issues. In The Sandwich Islands (1873), for example, describes how missionaries corrupt the Hawaiian population, Queen Victoria's Jubiley (1897) presents with disapproval the pompous celebrations and magnificent processions of the royal society in England, and "The Monologue of King Leopold" 1905) reveals through a dramatic monologue the political evils caused by despotism.