Kitty, It's Friday, not Monday - there's no need for a hissy fit. - B. Clay Shannon From: Alan Kitty <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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 Sent from my iPhone > 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= =3D > answer or two; is there a consensus about which Twain works, when limited t= =3D > o=3DC2=3DA0full-length "books" (novels and nonfiction focusing on one main= subj=3D > ect/theme) are considered his best works? > The list I'm thinking of would include the following, in chronological ord= e=3D > 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= e=3D > 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= =3D > tc.), or at least as to popularity (appreciation by the water-imbibing pub= l=3D > ic) > =3DC2=3DA0- B. Clay Shannon