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

The most famous is H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine, which uses a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively, while Twain's time traveler is struck in the head.

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.

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.

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

Twain's novel Pudd ' nhead Wilson, published in 1893, includes a courtroom drama that turns on fingerprint identification.

Author K. Martin Gardner expounds on this literary history, and Twain's friendship with renowned scientist of the time, Nikola Tesla, in his novel of the town's name. Copperopolis

* Tahlequah is mentioned several times in Mark Twain's 1892 novel The American Claimant as the origin of a bank robber named One-Armed Pete.

Thus, A Connecticut Yankee ( 1927 ) was based on Mark Twain's novel, and The Boys From Syracuse ( 1938 ) on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

Researchers Lynnette Porter and Barry Porter acknowledge the writer's familiarity with Mark Twain's novel Pudd ' nhead Wilson.

* In Mark Twain's first historical fiction ( 1882 ), the novel The Prince and the Pauper, Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII of England, and his pauper look-alike, Tom Canty, trade places.

* Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper ( see " Literature ," above ) has been the basis for many film and stage adaptations, the earliest film version being in 1920.

He went on to reprise the role in a 1996 BBC adaptation of Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper.

Emily Grant Hutchings claimed that her 1917 novel Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board was dictated by Mark Twain's spirit through the use of a Ouija board after his death.

Kingdom of the Sun was to have been a tale of a greedy, selfish emperor ( voiced by Spade ) who finds a peasant ( voiced by Owen Wilson ) who looks just like him ; the emperor swaps places with the peasant for fun, much as in author Mark Twain's archetypal novel The Prince and the Pauper.

While Connecticut Yankee is sometimes credited as the foundational work in the time travel subgenre of science fiction, Twain's novel had several important immediate predecessors.

In Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's Monday Begins on Saturday, Merlin is transported to the Soviet Union of the 1960s, where he explicitly refers to Twain's novel, declaring its protagonist an early exponent of American imperialism.

The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th century novel The Prince and the Pauper.

The storyline of Trading Places — a member of society trading places with another whose socio-economical status stands in direct contrast to his own — often draws comparisons to Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper.

Tom and Huck is a 1995 Disney film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Michael McShane, and Amy Wright ; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain ( James Garner ) is invited as the keynote speaker for the Bryn Mawr College graduation ceremonies of 1891.

According to Twain's biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, their wives challenged Twain and Warner at dinner to write a better novel than what they were used to reading.

* Aunt Sally is a character in Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn who attempts to adopt and civilize Huck.

The plot line of a modern individual being transported into the Middle Ages was used as the basis for Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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

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

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

Twain's friends encourage him to go find a man called Jim Blaine when Blaine is properly drunk, and get Blaine to tell " the stirring story about his grandfather's old ram " ( Chapter 53 ).

However, Twain's biographer, Robin Eggar, writes: " There is a continuing confusion about what ' Shania ' means and if indeed it is an Ojibwe word or phrase at all.

In August 2009, at a conference in Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for Twain's label said a new record from the singer is still " nowhere in sight ".

Another remedy similar to Twain's is reported from Northern Ireland, where water from a specific well on Rathlin Island is credited with the power to cure warts.

Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri is a tourist attraction offering a glimpse into the Midwest of his time.

Mark Twain's boyhood home is open to the public

Godfrey's sword is given satirical mention in Mark Twain's " Innocents Abroad " ( 1869 ).

In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the book that Tom catches Becky Thatcher looking at, and which she tears a page of, is implied to be Gray's Anatomy.

It is believed that the rumors began when Twain's cousin had become ill.

The concept has also been attributed to Mark Twain, though there is no documentation of this origin in Twain's published writings.

* February 18-Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time

* November 18-Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in a New York weekly, The Saturday Press.

In Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Morgan le Fay is an archetypical corrupt and cruel feudal aristocrat, keeping prisoners for decades in her dungeon.

Peace is mentioned by name in the Sherlock Holmes short story, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client and in Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

The feud is satirized in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.