Ooops! My "What's the best time Saturday?" message was intended for another 
person entirely, just in case anyone is trying to make sense of it (like Dan 
Rather trying to figure out why that mugger famously asked him "What's the 
frequency, Kenneth?").

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Alan Kitty
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2017 12:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
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 
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olitical tendencies, region, nationality and dietary habits of critic? And 
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or Heaven's sake, don't leave out earnings from Sales.  Without those, most 
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f those titles might not exist, and only a few descendants would have heard 
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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:
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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 
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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), 
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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, 
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> tc.), or at least as to popularity (appreciation by the water-imbibing 
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> ic)
> =3DC2=3DA0- B. Clay Shannon