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 "

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 ".

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ) was consciously written as a picaresque novel

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 ".

It was based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen.

* House of Leaves, a novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

The first part of this novel was originally published as the novella To Leave a Mark in the November 1982 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

* 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.

The name was coined by Gell-Mann and is a reference to the novel Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (" Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Mark Twain made Merlin the villain in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

* Nemesis, a planned film adaptation of the Mark Millar graphic novel

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

* Name of the dog in the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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.

* Mark Z. Danielewski's novel " House of Leaves " centers around a house containing an infinite number of rooms.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

Mark Twain, in the following century, used the word in this sense in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, published in 1889.

* Mark Turnbull: Decision Most Deadly, a novel set in London during 1641, as England plunged into civil war.

" London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden ( 1910 ) and as Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon ( 1913 ).

In Rosemary Sutcliff's 1965 novel The Mark of the Horse Lord the Dal Riada undergo an internal struggle for control of royal succession, and an external conflict to defend their frontiers against the Caledones.

* Mark of the Lion Series ( 1993 ), a series of historical fiction novel by Francine Rivers.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

* Ella Minnow Pea is a book by Mark Dunn where certain letters become unusable throughout the novel.