In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

* Christian Science Mark Twain's famous, vitriolic 1907 polemic mocking Mary Baker Eddy, her writings, and the church's financial arrangements.

* 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

The common title of the cycle echoes Mark Twain's description of Sullivan as a " miracle worker.

Millet is the main protagonist of Mark Twain's play Is He Dead?

The revived Arthurian romance also proved influential in the United States, with such books as Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur ( 1880 ) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

* 1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Mark Twain's " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "

A typical shaggy dog story occurs in Mark Twain's book about his travels west, Roughing It.

" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was the title story of Mark Twain's first book one year later.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

* 1889 – Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1885 illustration from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captioned " Misto ' Bradish's nigger "

Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been the subject of controversy for its racial content, including its use of the word " nigger " as applied to the escaped slave character Jim.

One of Mark Twain's novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut.

Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

It owes much to Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

* In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer's Aunt's resolve becomes " adamantine in its firmness ".

First-person narratives can appear in several forms: interior monologue, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground ; dramatic monologue, as in Albert Camus ' The Fall ; or explicitly, as in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Another influence might be Mark Twain's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually a blundering fool, but whose mistakes in the Crimean War always ended in success.

Mark Twain's memoir Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), notable mainly for its account of the author's time on the river, also recounts parts of his later life, and includes tall tales and stories allegedly told to him.

An earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as " eschew surplusage ".

* Beige Planet Mars ( 1998 ) by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, a novel in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series is set on a terraformed Mars which has become a retirement home for Earth's wealthy elderly.

In 1985, Will Vinton and his team released an ambitious feature film in stop motion called " The Adventures Of Mark Twain " based on the life and works of the famous American author.

* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain presents Aunt Polly as a true believer in various sorts of snake oil, though not always in the form of an alleged medicine.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic Mark Twain novel.

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain has his characters discuss a variety of such remedies.

* June 24 – First published review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in a British magazine ; the book's first edition had appeared earlier in June in England.

* Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

* Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

In the US, the recurrent ( reading curricula ) controversy about the vocabulary of the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1885 ), by Mark Twain — American literature ( usually ) taught in US schools – about the slave South, risks censorship because of 215 ( counted ) occurrences of the word nigger, most refer to Jim, Huckleberry's escaped-slave raft-mate.

The 1985 fantasy film The Adventures of Mark Twain was inspired by the quotation.

*" The Mark of the Berserker ", a two-part story in The Sarah Jane Adventures

** The Adventures of Mark Twain-Paul Detlefson and John Crouse

* Mark Twain satirised the host of claimants in the characters of the Duke and the Dauphin, the con men in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

* Pap Finn, Huck's father in the novel the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

* Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

* Judge Thatcher, a character in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

* Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer's love interest in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer