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Professor Baffin's Adventures

Max Adeler

First published 1881
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) resembled this story so strongly that Twain was accused of plagarism. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction lists several journal citations which explore the similarities between the two works.
First appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in the UK in 1880

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1881 Cover The Old Fogey and Other Stories Ward, Lock Collection
1882 Cover The Fortunate Island and Other Stories Lee and Shepard Collection
1914 By the Bend of the River: Tales of Connock Old and New John C. Winston Co. Collection 98