Mark Twain: a life

"Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39)

"The white town, drowsing ..." (1839)

Of words and the Word (1840-42)

The Hannibal decade (1843-53)

Apprentice (1848-51)

Rambler (1852-53)

"So far from home ..." (1853-56)

The language of water (1856-58)

Ranger (1858-61)

Washoe (1861-62)

A journalistic counterculture (1862-63)

"Mark Twain-more of him" (1863)

Code Duello (1863-64)

A villainous backwoods, sketch (1864-65)

" ... and I began to talk" (1865-66)

On the road (1866-67)

Back East (1867)

"move-move-Move!" (1867)

Pilgrims and sinners (1867)

In the thrall of Mother Bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)

"A work humorously inclined ..." (February-July 1868)

The girl in the miniature (July 1868-October 1868)

American vandal (October-December 1868)

"Quite worthy of the best" (1869)

Fairyland (1870)

"My hated nom de plume ..." (1871)

Sociable Jimmy (1871-72)

The lion of London (1872-73)

Gilded (1873-74)

Quarry Farm and Nook Farm (1874-75)

The man in the moon (1875)

"It befell yt one did breake wind ..." (1876)

God's fool (1877)

Abroad again (1878-79)

"A personal hatred for humbug" (1880)

"A powerful good time" (1881-82)

"All right, then ..." (1882-83)

The American novel (1884-85)

Roll over, Lord Byron (1886-87)

"I have fed so full on sorrows ..." (1887-90)

"We are skimming along like paupers ..." (1891-June 1893)

Savior (1893-94)

Thunder-stroke (1895-96)

Exile and return (1896-1900)

Sitting in darkness (1900-1905).