Greetings,

A friend teaches here in Connecticut and has told me of a first-year teacher
in his school who has been handed an advanced-placement class whose task
between now and January is to study, if you are ready,

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;"
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court;"
"Life on the Mississippi;"
"Innocents Abroad;"
"Pudd'nhead Wilson;" and,
"The Mysterious Stranger."

I can find e-texts for just about everything but the latter title. Does
anyone know where I can find this? I do not know which version of MS she is
using but should have that information in the coming week. I have searched
all over the place and cannot locate it. I am amply prepared to receive the
answer that it does not exist so far if that is the case.

I also have made available the address of Jim Zwick's site as well as the
address of this forum. I also have made her aware of the bibliography to be
found in the forum's survival guide. Now that the internet access bases all
have been covered, a couple of questions.

Does anyone have any suggestions for of any of the above works to be studied
in tandem; that is, LM and IA, for example?

Should she see her department head and try to trim this list? The answer
obvious to me is, "Yes," but I don't teach and can only guess.

This past week I spoke to another class there about their reading of TS.
These students were below average but they seemed to be able to grasp the
concepts I presented to them - semi-autobiographical nature of the book,
etc. The teacher involved in this 6-title program may ask me to speak to her
class as well.

This school is in easy reach of Hartford and the Twain House, by the way.

Any help will be appreciated.

Marc