Merry Tales

Merry Tales: Merry Tales

Merry Tales 1st edition cover

Author(s) Mark Twain

Country United States

Language English

Genre(s) Sketches

Publisher Charles L. Webster

Publication date 1892^[1]

Media type Print

Pages 209

Preceded by The American Claimant

Followed by Those Extraordinary Twins

Merry Tales is a short volume with sketches by Mark Twain, published by Webster in 1892,

Contents:

- THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED
- THE INVALIDS STORY
- LUCK
- THE CAPTAINS STORY
- A CURIOUS EXPERIENCE
- MRS. Mc WILLIAMS AND THE LIGHTNING
- MEISTERSCHAFT

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^ Facsimile of the original 1st edition.

v · d · eWorks by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Novels

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • The Prince and the Pauper • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court • The American Claimant • Tom Sawyer Abroad • Pudd'nhead Wilson • Tom Sawyer, Detective • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc • A Double Barrelled Detective Story • A Horse's Tale • A Dog's Tale • The Mysterious Stranger

Short stories

"General Washington's Negro Body-Servant" • "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" • "Advice to Little Girls" • "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" • "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" • "The War Prayer" • "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" • "A Literary Nightmare" • "Luck" • "The Stolen White Elephant" • "1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" • A Dog's Tale • "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage"

Short story
collections

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance • Sketches New and Old • A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime • Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches • Merry Tales • The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Letters from the Earth • The Library of Humor •

Plays

Is He Dead?

Essays

Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany • How to Tell a Story and Other Essays • Christian Science • Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses • The Awful German Language

Non-fiction

The Innocents Abroad • Memoranda (monthly column) • Roughing It • Old Times on the Mississippi • A Tramp Abroad • Life on the Mississippi • Following the Equator • What Is Man? • Is Shakespeare Dead? • Queen Victoria's Jubilee • Autobiography of Mark Twain • Mark Twain's Notebook • King Leopold's Soliloquy • The Private History of a Campaign That Failed • Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War • The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood

Categories:
Short story collections by Mark Twain
1892 short story collections

Merry Tales
Merry Tales 1st edition cover
Author(s)	Mark Twain
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Sketches
Publisher	Charles L. Webster
Publication date	1892^[1]
Media type	Print
Pages	209
Preceded by	The American Claimant
Followed by	Those Extraordinary Twins

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