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Re: Is there a general consensus as to Twain's best full-length works?
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Kitty,
It's Friday, not Monday - there's no need for a hissy fit. - B. Clay Shannon

      From: Alan Kitty <[log in to unmask]>
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 Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 10:42 AM
 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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>=20
> I know the short answer to this is "No," but I'm hoping for a more nuanced=
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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 main=
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> ect/theme) are considered his best works?
> The list I'm thinking of would include the following, in chronological ord=
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> r:
> 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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> l
> 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 pub=
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> ic)
> =3DC2=3DA0- B. Clay Shannon


   

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