Yeah, so most of you who have read more than I have or looked up Twain's Bibliography can probably hazard a guess about the impossibility of Project 3. My personal collection has about 6 novels, and a few short stories. Here's just what I got from Wikipedia:
Novels
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
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)
A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902)
A Horse's Tale (1907)
The Mysterious Stranger (1916, posthumous)
Short stories
"Advice to Little Girls" (1865)
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
(1867)
"General Washington's Negro Body-Servant" (1868)
"My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (1868)
"Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls"
(1875)
"A Literary Nightmare" (1876)
"A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" (1876)
"The Invalid's Story" (1877)
"The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (1879)
"1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside,
in the Time of the Tudors" (1880)
"The Stolen White Elephant" (1882)
"Luck" (1891)
"Those Extraordinary Twins" (1892)
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1900)
"A Dog's Tale" (1904)
"Extracts from Adam's Diary" (1904)
"The War Prayer" (1905)
"Eve's Diary" (1906)
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" (1909)
"My Platonic Sweetheart" (1912, posthumous)
"The Private Life of Adam and Eve" (1931,
posthumous)
Collections
Short story collections
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
(1871), short story collection
Sketches New and Old (1875), short story collection
A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (1877), short
story collection
Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches (1878), short
story collection
Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888), short story collection
Merry Tales (1892), short story collection
The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (1893), short
story collection
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906), short story
collection
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
(1919, posthumous), short story collection
The Washoe Giant in San Francisco (1938, posthumous), short
story collection
Essay collections
Memoranda (1870-1871), essay collection from Galaxy
How to Tell a Story and other Essays (1897)
Europe and Elsewhere (1923, posthumous), edited by Albert
Bigelow Paine
Letters from the Earth (1962, posthumous)
A Pen Warmed Up In Hell (1972, posthumous)[2]
The Bible According to Mark Twain (1996, posthumous)[3]
Essays
"The Awful German Language" (1880)
"Advice to Youth" (1882)
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)
"English As She Is Taught" (1887)
"Concerning the Jews" (1898)
"A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the
Twentieth" (1900)
"To the Person Sitting in Darkness" (1901)
"To My Missionary Critics" (1901)
"Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" (1901)
"What Is Man?" (1906)
"Christian Science" (1907)
"Queen Victoria's Jubilee" (1910)
"The United States of Lyncherdom" (1923,
posthumous)
Non-fiction
The Innocents Abroad (1869), travel
Roughing It (1872), travel
Old Times on the Mississippi (1876), travel
A Tramp Abroad (1880), travel
Life on the Mississippi (1883), travel
Following the Equator (1897), travel
Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)
Moments with Mark Twain (1920, posthumous)
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935, posthumous)
Other writings
Is He Dead? (1898), play
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" (1901),
satirical lyric
"King Leopold's Soliloquy" (1905), satire
"Little Bessie Would Assist Providence" (1908),
poem
Slovenly Peter (1935, posthumous), children's book
Autobiography and
letters
Mark Twain's Autobiography
Chapters from My Autobiography published by North American
Review (1906–1907)
Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Albert Bigelow
Paine (1924)
Posthumous edition named Mark Twain in Eruption compiled and
edited by Bernard DeVoto (1940)
Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Charles Neider
Posthumous edition compiled and edited by Harriet Elinor
Smith and the Mark Twain Project: Volume 1 (2010)
Mark Twain's Letters, 1853–1880 (2010, posthumous)
Tom Sawyer's done, and I've got three pages of Huckleberry Finn under my belt. So another 5-6 months worth of reading in 8 days, and I should be set to rights.
Okay, I'm licked.
I'm gonna take a trip to the library tomorrow, see what they've got of this list.
On a happier note, I loved Tom Sawyer as much this time as the times I started it. It's hard to explain why I like it. The dialogue is great and there're lots of little adventures. The ending was a little pat for me, but nothing to really complain about. What I like about the book is what I like about HBO. My favourite HBO series (Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, Big Love) all had an unapologetic internal morality that was not really the modern day western world progressive sensibility. A lot of the old cast-of-thousands toga movies I like shove a lot of 1950s American ideals about freedom and liberty into stories and places and time periods that had nothing to do with them. The HBO shows don't. The morality of the show Rome is horrible, horrible Roman morality. Watch Deadwood, and see how romantic and noble the Wild West was.
What I like about Tom Sawyer is the story's internal morality and worldview is that of a little boy, of the 19th century. Twain's depiction of Tom's reasoning and logic is so much fun.
I've got to get back to Huckleberry Finn, because, you know, no due diligence and all that.
-Mike
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