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Volume I Three biographical responses: "My Mark Twain Reminiscences andCriticisms", William Dean Howells; "Mark Twain: A biography, The Personal andLiterary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens", Albert Bigelow Paine; "My Father,Mark Twain", Clara Clemens. Volume II Contemporary reviews - creativewriters' responses: "The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress"(1869); "Roughing It" (1872); "The Gilded Age" (1873); "Sketches, New andOld" (1875); "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876); "A Tramp Abroad" (1880);"The Prince and the Pauper" (1881-2); "The Stolen White Elephant" (1882);"Life on the Mississippi" (1883); "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"(1884-5); "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court" (1889); "The#1,000,000 Bank-note" (1893); "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894); "TomSawyer Abroad" (1894); "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" (1896); "TomSawyer Detective, and Other Tales" (1896); "Following the Equator, or MoreTramps Abroad" (1897); "The Man that Corrupted Hadeleyburg, and OtherStories" (1900); "A Double-barrelled Detective Story" (1902); "Extracts fromAdam's Diary" (1904); "King Leopold's Soliloquy" (1905); "What is Man?"(1906); "Is Shakespeare Dead?" (1909); "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"(1909); "Mark Twain's Autobiography" (1924); "The Florida Edition of MarkTwain" (1925); creative writers' responses. Volume III Critical essays: "TheCelebrated Jumping From of Calaveras County" (1867); "The Innocents Abroad,or the New Pilgrim's Progress" (1869); "Roughing It" (1872); "The Gilded Age"(1873); "Old Times on the Missisippi" (1875, "Life on the Mississippi"(1883); "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876); "The Prince and the Pauper"(1881-2); "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884-5); "A Private Historyof a Campaign that Failed" (1885); "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'sCourt" (1889); "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894); "PersonalReflections of Joan of Arc" (1896); "Following the Equator, More TrampsAbroad" (1897); "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1899); "What is Man?"(1906); "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916). Volume IV Twentieth-centuryoverview: the first decade; the Brooks-De Voto controversy; the Frontier andthe West; Mark Twain's humour; the South, slavery and race; Mark Twain andsexuality; Mark Twain and language; towards conclusions.