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well as for a number of those aspects that Clay’s analogy did not accommodate. And if Davy Crockett was celebrated as a hero, it was as a champion of Western expansion, with the concomitant extension of chattel slavery in the same direction, which is the shadowy part of that great diagram to which the Mississippi River was central.
     
    —John Seelye

Selected Bibliography

WORKS BY MARK TWAIN
    The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)
    The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim’s Progress (1869)
    Eye Openers (1871)
    Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (1871) Roughing It (1872)
    Screamers (1872)
    Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain (1873)
    The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day [with Charles Dudley Warner] (1873)
    Mark Twain’s Sketches (1874)
    Sketches, Old and New (1875)
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
    Ah Sin [with Bret Harte] (1877)
    A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (1877)
    Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches (1878)
    A Tramp Aboard (1880)
    “1601” or Conversation at the Social Fireside as It Was in the Time of the Tudors (1880)
    The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
    The Stolen White Elephant, Etc. (1882)
    Life on the Mississippi (1883)
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
    Mark Twain’s Library of Humor (1888)
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1890)
    The American Claimant (1892)
    Merry Tales (1892)
    The £1,000,000 Bank-note and Other New Stories (1893)
    The Niagra Book (1893)
    Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (1894)
    Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)
    Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Stories (1896)
    How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897)
    Following the Equator (1897)
    More Tramps Abroad (1898)
    The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (1899)
    Literary Essays (1899)
    English as She Is Taught (1900)
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)
    To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
    A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902)
    My Debut as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories (1903)
    The Jumping Frog in English, Then in French, Then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient Unremunerated Toil (1903)
    Extracts from Adam’s Diary, Translated from the Original MS. (1904)
    A Dog’s Tale (1904)
    King Leopold’s Soliloquy: A Defense of His Cargo Rule (1905)
    Eve’s Diary, Translated from the Original MS. (1906)
    What Is Man? (1906)
    The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906)
    Christian Science (1907)
    Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909)
    Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography (1909)
    Mark Twain’s Autobiography (1924)
    Letters from the Earth (1962)

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
    Brooks, Van Wyck. The Ordeal of Mark Twain. New York: Dutton, 1920. Revised edition, 1933.
    Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
    Howells, William Dean. My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910.
    Kaplan, Fred. The Singular Mark Twain. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
    Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.
    Kar, Prafulla C., ed. Mark Twain: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Delhi: Pencraft, 1992.
    de Koster, Katie, ed. Readings on Mark Twain. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996.
    Lauber, John. The Making of Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: American Heritage Press, 1985.
    LeMaster, J. R. and James D. Wilson, eds. The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1993.
    Michelson, Bruce. Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
    Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 3 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
    Powers, Ron. Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain.