Unquestionably 3:39 pm.
Hope this helps. 😉
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Subject: Re: Is there a general consensus as to Twain's best full-length works?
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From: Alan Kitty
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2017 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Is there a general consensus as to Twain's best full-length works?
It's just a start, but how about ranking by era, age, gender, religious and p= olitical tendencies, region, nationality and dietary habits of critic? And f= or Heaven's sake, don't leave out earnings from Sales. Without those, most o= f those titles might not exist, and only a few descendants would have heard o= f our Mark. But perhaps "NO" will suffice after all.=20
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> On Feb 3, 2017, at 12:55 PM, Clay Shannon < <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I know the short answer to this is "No," but I'm hoping for a more
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> answer or two; is there a consensus about which Twain works, when
> limited t=
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> o=3DC2=3DA0full-length "books" (novels and nonfiction focusing on one
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> ect/theme) are considered his best works?
> The list I'm thinking of would include the following, in chronological
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> The Innocents Abroad (1869), travel
> Roughing It (1872), travel
> The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
> (1876) A Tramp Abroad (1880), travel The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
> Life on the Mississippi (1883), travel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
> (1884) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) The American
> Claimant (1892) Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
> Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896) Tom Sawyer, Detective
> (1896) Following the Equator (sometimes titled "More Tramps Abroad")
> (1897), trav=
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> I would personally place them in this ranking:
> Roughing It
> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
> The Innocents Abroad
> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
> Life on the Mississippi
> A Tramp Abroad
> Following the Equator
> A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Gilded Age: A Tale of
> Today The Prince and the Pauper The American Claimant Pudd'nhead
> Wilson Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer, Detective Personal Recollections
> of Joan of Arc ...but wonder if there is a consensus as to ranking (by
> critics/scholars, e=
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> tc.), or at least as to popularity (appreciation by the water-imbibing
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> =3DC2=3DA0- B. Clay Shannon
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