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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

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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 

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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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