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Boy's Manuscript

  • Composition Date: 1870
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980)
  • Alternate title: "Supplement A"

Letter to William Bowen

  • Composition Date: 1870
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4
  • Alternate title: UCCL02464

The Lost Ear-ring

  • Composition Date: June 1878
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Emperor-God Satire

  • Composition Date: 1870–1879
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Tupperville-Dobbsville

  • Composition Date: 1876–1880
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom

The Second Advent

  • Composition Date: 1881
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Holy Children

  • Composition Date: 1879–1881
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Abner L. Jackson (About to Be) Deceased

  • Composition Date: 1880–1881
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Clairvoyant

  • Composition Date: 1883–1884
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians

  • Composition Date: 1884
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom

Colloquy

  • Composition Date: 1869–1888
  • Published in: Fables of Man

A Letter from the Comet

  • Composition Date: 1880–1889
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Jane Lampton Clemens

  • Composition Date: November–December 1890
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom

The Enchanted Sea-Wilderness

  • Composition Date: December 1896
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

In My Bitterness

  • Composition Date: June–August 1897
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Which Was the Dream?

  • Composition Date: May–August 1897
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

Ancients in Modern Dress

  • Composition Date: 1896–1897
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Hellfire Hotchkiss

  • Composition Date: 1897
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Satires & Burlesques
  • Alternate title: "The Hellfire Hotchkiss Sequence" (part III)

Villagers of 1840—3

  • Composition Date: 1897
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom

An Adventure in Remote Seas

  • Composition Date: May 1898
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

The Great Dark

  • Composition Date: September–November 1898
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

The Chronicle of Young Satan

  • Composition Date: November 1897–December 1898
  • Published in: Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
  • Description: The complete text of "The Chronicle of Young Satan" on a single web page

Schoolhouse Hill (1969 ed.)

  • Composition Date: November–December 1898
  • Published in: Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
  • Also published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Description: The complete text of "Schoolhouse Hill" on a single web page

Schoolhouse Hill (1989 ed.)

  • Composition Date: November–December 1898
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Newhouse's Jew Story

  • Composition Date: 1895–1899
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Randall's Jew Story

  • Composition Date: 1890 -1899
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Indiantown

  • Composition Date: 1899
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

Goose Fable

  • Composition Date: 1899–1900
  • Published in: Fables of Man

History 1,000 Years from Now

  • Composition Date: January 1901
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Stupendous Procession

  • Composition Date: 1901
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Secret History of Eddypus, the World-Empire

  • Composition Date: February—March 1901; February—March 1902
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Concerning “Martyrs' Day”

  • Composition Date: 19 September 1902
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Eddypus Fragment

  • Composition Date: 1901–1902
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy

  • Composition Date: 1897–1902
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom

Huck Finn

  • Composition Date: 1897–1902
  • Published in: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
  • Also published in: Hannibal, Huck and Tom
  • Alternate title: Doughface

“You've Been a Dam Fool, Mary. You Always Was!”

  • Composition Date: December 1903
  • Published in: Fables of Man

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

  • Composition Date: November 1902–September 1908
  • Published in: Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
  • Description: The complete text of "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" on one page

Which Was It

  • Composition Date: 1899–1903
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

3,000 Years among the Microbes

  • Composition Date: May–June 1905
  • Published in: Which Was the Dream?

Thoughts of God

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Victims

  • Composition Date: 1901–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Synod of Praise

  • Composition Date: 1901–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Mock Marriage

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Passage from “Glances at History” (suppressed.)

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Passage from “Outlines of History” (suppressed.)

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Passage from a Lecture

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Flies and Russians

  • Composition Date: 1904 -1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Fable of the Yellow Terror

  • Composition Date: 1904 -1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Recurrent Major and Minor Compliment

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Old Age

  • Composition Date: December 1905
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Ten Commandments

  • Composition Date: 1905–1906
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Refuge of the Derelicts

  • Composition Date: 1905–1906
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The Private Secretary's Diary

  • Composition Date: June 1907
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Little Nelly...

  • Composition Date: 1907
  • Published in: Fables of Man

Little Bessie

  • Composition Date: February 1908–July 1909
  • Published in: Fables of Man

The International Lightning Trust

  • Composition Date: 1909
  • Published in: Fables of Man

About Asa Hoover

  • Composition Date: 1908–1909
  • Published in: Fables of Man