"I haint red much a Twain but the dyalecks give me a hedacke," said William the hick.

I love 'em. But I'm a Southerner.

I like some of his more obscure short stories, like 'Eve's Diary' and 'The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.'
I also like Huckleberry Finn, the character, a whole lot. But for some reason my reading Tom Sawyer inspired not so much indulgent chuckles as a desire to swat the little twerp right where it might do some good.

I just can't stop laughing when some idiots want to ban Tom Sawyer because when Jim is arrested as a run-a-way slave Tom says "I want my nigger!!"

The Jumping Frog Of Calveras County was actually Twain's first well known story.
The same people want to ban Huckleberry Finn for the same reason.
One of my favorite Twain novels is A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court.It has a lot of wonderful anchronisms in it as well as a bittersweet ending.
Then there is also the comic travelogue The Innocent's Abroad.

Ferguson!

Earlier this year, I reread The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I've just started rereading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and I just caught a nit, I does believe. In Tom Sawyer, Tom teaches Huck, Ben Rogers and other boys how to be highwaymen. He teaches them about how they have to kill their victims, ransom them and hold the women folks hostage til they fall in love with them, etc., etc. Which is all good and fine. Except in Huck Finn he teaches the same kids the same game - again. And all the kids act like it's their first time to learn the game. Must be some wacky tobacky they's been smokin' what causes short term mem'ry losses.