Merry Tales

{{Short description|Book by Mark Twain}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Merry Tales | image = File:Merry Tales-27385364.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [[Mark Twain]] | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | genre = [[Sketch story|Sketches]] | publisher = Charles L. Webster | release_date = 1892<ref>[[:File:1892. Merry Tales.djvu|Facsimile of the original 1st edition]].</ref> | media_type = Print | pages = 209 | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}

'''''Merry Tales''''' is a short volume with sketches by [[Mark Twain]], published by [[Charles L. Webster and Company]] in March 1892.<ref name=Rasmussen339>Rasmussen, R. Kent. ''Critical Companion to Mark Twain: A Literary Reference to his Life and Work''. New York, NY: Facts On File, Inc., 2007: 339. {{ISBN|978-0-8160-5398-8}}</ref>

==Contents==

*"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" *"The Invalid's Story" *"Luck" *"The Captain's Story" *"A Curious Experience" *"Mrs. Mc Williams and the Lightning" *"Meisterschaft"

The contents of ''Merry Tales'', except "The Captain's Story", were reprinted as a section titled "Merry Tales" in ''The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches''.<ref name=Rasmussen339/>

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==External links== *[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924022053593 Facsimile] of first edition at OpenLibrary, also available for download in many ebook formats

[[Category:Short story collections by Mark Twain]] [[Category:English-language books]] [[Category:1892 short story collections]]