You asked for a list of stuff I've read by Mark Twain. I really don't want to do any other work right now, so here it is:
Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Connecticut Yankee
Joan of Arc
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Letters from the Earth
The Prince and the Pauper
Portions of:
The Gilded Age
Following the Equator
Roughing It
Innocents Abroad
Almost all of his short stories, with the exception of "A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage" (but I'm getting to that one!). I've read nearly every compilation of his letters I can get my hands on. I love the letters to his brother Orion. My favorite writings so far are "The War Prayer" and a short essay on his dream love, which is very interesting. If you haven't read it yet, I can get you an online copy. I also found what he wrote right after his daughter Jean died to be very touching and insightful, more in to Clemens than Twain, of course.
Anyway. That's the list as much as I can remember it. Oh, and please excuse the lack of italics. It was saying something about containing illegal characters (oh my!) when I went to post this with italics. Being almost completely computer-illiterate, I closed my eyes until I was convinced the cops weren't coming, then removed the italics and posted it.
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Jessica--no internet police here, so you're safe. I think you forgot Pudd'nhead Wilson on your list, which I think you told me in class you knew. Try The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger sometime. Also, if you ever find it, he once wrote a piece called 1601, a scandalous little joke about a fart, of all things.
I have a couple of old Twain books given to me as gifts which I'll bring in to show you.
Thanks for the list. (I'm also a big fan of Hal Holbrook's one-man Mark Twain show and have a tape of that, if you're interested in hearing it).
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