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Boy's Manuscript

  • Composition Date: 1870
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: TS
  • Alternate title: "Supplement A"

Letter to William Bowen

  • Composition Date: 1870
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: L4
  • Alternate title: UCCL02464

Tom Sawyer: A Play in Four Acts

  • Composition Date: 1875–1884
  • Published in: HHT

Tupperville-Dobbsville (1969)

  • Composition Date: 1876–1880
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind

Tupperville-Dobbsville (1989)

  • Composition Date: 1876–1880
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT

The Lost Ear-ring

  • Composition Date: June 1878
  • Published in: FoM

The Emperor-God Satire

  • Composition Date: 1870–1879
  • Published in: FoM

A Letter from the Comet

  • Composition Date: 1880–1889
  • Published in: FoM

[Three Statements of the Eighties]

  • Composition Date: 1880–1885
  • Published in: WIM

The Second Advent

  • Composition Date: 1881
  • Published in: FoM

The Holy Children

  • Composition Date: 1879–1881
  • Published in: FoM

Abner L. Jackson (About to Be) Deceased

  • Composition Date: 1880–1881
  • Published in: FoM

Clairvoyant (1969)

  • Composition Date: 1883–1884
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind

Clairvoyant (1989)

  • Composition Date: 1883–1884
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians (1969)

  • Composition Date: 1884
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians (1989)

  • Composition Date: 1884
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT

[Letter from the Recording Angel]

  • Composition Date: 1887
  • Published in: WIM

Colloquy

  • Composition Date: 1869–1888
  • Published in: FoM

[Bible Teaching and Religious Practice]

  • Composition Date: 1890
  • Published in: WIM

Jane Lampton Clemens (1969)

  • Composition Date: November–December 1890
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind

Jane Lampton Clemens (1989)

  • Composition Date: November–December 1890
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT

[Macfarlane]

  • Composition Date: 1894
  • Published in: WIM

Ancients in Modern Dress

  • Composition Date: 1896–1897
  • Published in: FoM

[Man's Place in the Animal World]

  • Composition Date: 1896
  • Published in: WIM

The Enchanted Sea-Wilderness

  • Composition Date: December 1896
  • Published in: WWD

Villagers of 1840—3 (1969)

  • Composition Date: 1897
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind

Hellfire Hotchkiss

  • Composition Date: 1897
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: S&B
  • Alternate title: "The Hellfire Hotchkiss Sequence" (part III)

Villagers of 1840—3 (1989)

  • Composition Date: 1897
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT

Doughface

  • Composition Date: 1897–1902
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind
  • Alternate title: Huck Finn

Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy (1969)

  • Composition Date: 1897–1902
  • Published in: HHT
  • Also published in: Ind

Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy (1989)

  • Composition Date: 1897–1902
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT

Huck Finn

  • Composition Date: 1897–1902
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: HHT
  • Alternate title: Doughface

Which Was the Dream?

  • Composition Date: May–August 1897
  • Published in: WWD

In My Bitterness

  • Composition Date: June–August 1897
  • Published in: FoM

The Chronicle of Young Satan

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

[Something about Repentance]

  • Composition Date: 1898
  • Published in: WIM

An Adventure in Remote Seas

  • Composition Date: May 1898
  • Published in: WWD

The Great Dark

  • Composition Date: September–November 1898
  • Published in: WWD

Schoolhouse Hill (1969)

  • Composition Date: November–December 1898
  • Published in: MSMSS
  • Also published in: Ind
  • Description: The complete text of "Schoolhouse Hill" on a single web page

Schoolhouse Hill (1989)

  • Composition Date: November–December 1898
  • Published in: Ind
  • Also published in: MSMSS

Newhouse's Jew Story

  • Composition Date: 1895–1899
  • Published in: FoM

Randall's Jew Story

  • Composition Date: 1890 -1899
  • Published in: FoM

A Human Bloodhound

  • Composition Date: 1899
  • Published in: HHT

Indiantown

  • Composition Date: 1899
  • Published in: WWD

Goose Fable

  • Composition Date: 1899–1900
  • Published in: FoM

History 1,000 Years from Now

  • Composition Date: January 1901
  • Published in: FoM

The Stupendous Procession

  • Composition Date: 1901
  • Published in: FoM

Eddypus Fragment

  • Composition Date: 1901–1902
  • Published in: FoM

Passage from “Glances at History” (suppressed.)

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: FoM

Passage from “Outlines of History” (suppressed.)

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: FoM

Passage from a Lecture

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: FoM

The Recurrent Major and Minor Compliment

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: FoM

Corn-Pone Opinions

  • Composition Date: 1901
  • Published in: WIM

The Secret History of Eddypus, the World-Empire

  • Composition Date: February—March 1901; February—March 1902
  • Published in: FoM

Concerning “Martyrs' Day”

  • Composition Date: 19 September 1902
  • Published in: FoM

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

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

Which Was It

  • Composition Date: 1899–1903
  • Published in: WWD

"Was the World Made for Man?"

  • Composition Date: 1903
  • Published in: WIM

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

  • Composition Date: December 1903
  • Published in: FoM

Flies and Russians

  • Composition Date: 1904 -1905
  • Published in: FoM

The Fable of the Yellow Terror

  • Composition Date: 1904 -1905
  • Published in: FoM

Thoughts of God

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: FoM

The Victims

  • Composition Date: 1901–1905
  • Published in: FoM

The Synod of Praise

  • Composition Date: 1901–1905
  • Published in: FoM

Mock Marriage

  • Composition Date: 1900–1905
  • Published in: FoM

In the Animal's Court

  • Composition Date: 1905
  • Published in: WIM

God

  • Composition Date: 1905
  • Published in: WIM

As Concerns Interpreting the Deity

  • Composition Date: 1905
  • Published in: WIM

3,000 Years among the Microbes

  • Composition Date: May–June 1905
  • Published in: WWD

Old Age

  • Composition Date: December 1905
  • Published in: FoM

The Ten Commandments

  • Composition Date: 1905–1906
  • Published in: FoM

The Refuge of the Derelicts

  • Composition Date: 1905–1906
  • Published in: FoM

Little Nelly...

  • Composition Date: 1907
  • Published in: FoM

The Private Secretary's Diary

  • Composition Date: June 1907
  • Published in: FoM

Little Bessie

  • Composition Date: February 1908–July 1909
  • Published in: FoM

The International Lightning Trust

  • Composition Date: 1909
  • Published in: FoM

About Asa Hoover

  • Composition Date: 1908–1909
  • Published in: FoM

Things a Scotsman Wants to Know

  • Composition Date: 1909
  • Published in: WIM

Letters from the Earth

  • Composition Date: 1909
  • Published in: WIM

"The Turning Point of My Life"

  • Composition Date: 1910
  • Published in: WIM

Tom Sawyer's Gang Plans a Naval Battle

  • Composition Date: ND
  • Published in: HHT