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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

References

^ 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

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