# Merry Tales

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Book by Mark Twain

Merry Tales First edition Author Mark Twain Language English Genre Sketches Publisher Charles L. Webster Publication date 1892[1] Publication place United States Media type Print Pages 209

***Merry Tales*** is a short volume with sketches by [Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain), published by [Charles L. Webster and Company](/source/Charles_L._Webster_and_Company) in March 1892.[2]

## 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*.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Facsimile of the original 1st edition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1892._Merry_Tales.djvu).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Rasmussen339_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Rasmussen339_2-1) 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8160-5398-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-5398-8)

## External links

- [Facsimile](https://archive.org/stream/cu31924022053593) of first edition at OpenLibrary, also available for download in many ebook formats

v t e Mark Twain Bibliography 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 The Mysterious Stranger Hellfire Hotchkiss Short stories "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "Cannibalism in the Cars" "A Literary Nightmare" "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" 1601 "The Stolen White Elephant" "Luck" "The Million Pound Bank Note" "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" "Those Extraordinary Twins" "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" "A Dog's Tale" "Extracts from Adam's Diary" "The War Prayer" "Eve's Diary" "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" "My Platonic Sweetheart" "Advice for Good Little Girls" Collections Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance Sketches New and Old Mark Twain's Library of Humor Merry Tales The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories Plays Is He Dead? Essays "The Awful German Language" "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" "Advice to Youth" How to Tell a Story and Other Essays "Concerning the Jews" "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" "What Is Man?" "The United States of Lyncherdom" "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" Letters from the Earth Nonfiction Territorial Enterprise letters Letters from Hawaii The Innocents Abroad Roughing It Old Times on the Mississippi A Tramp Abroad Life on the Mississippi Following the Equator Is Shakespeare Dead? Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography) King Leopold's Soliloquy The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Christian Science Speeches "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" "Votes for Women" Places and events Family cabin Birthplace State Historic Site State Park Boyhood home and museum Mark Twain Cave Mark Twain in Nevada Territorial Enterprise Sagebrush School Quarry Farm Mark Twain House Stormfield Twain–Ament indemnities controversy Popular culture Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Mark Twain Readers Award Mark Twain Tonight! The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Mark Twain (2001 documentary) Twain and Shaw Do Lunch (2011 play) Mark Twain: The Musical Family Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife) Susy Clemens (daughter) Clara Clemens (daughter) Jean Clemens (daughter) John M. Clemens (father) Jane Lampton Clemens (mother) Orion Clemens (brother) Related Jap Herron Center For Mark Twain Studies Mark Twain (book) Mark Twain National Forest Mark Twain Tree National Tom Sawyer Days

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