I hate to admit to doing without any of his works, but I have to confess that for me it's his Joan of Arc. I've tried to plow through it many times, always unsuccessfully. And yet he thought it was his best work. But what do I know? Jim <-----Original Message-----> From: Carmela Valente [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 3/31/2008 5:09:50 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: True confession Dear Twain Group: Obviously, this list is in existence because all of us love and appreciate Mark Twain's works. Is there any book of Twain's that you could happily do without? I thought of this as being on the Dickens list, I happened on my own to come upon his "The Uncommercial Traveler", and I didn't really care for it. As a child, I didn't like the Prince and the Pauper, though shamefully, I have not revisited it as an adult. The sacrilegious twainiac, Camy .