The complete humorous sketches and tales of Mark Twain
| Main Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. |
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| Other Authors: | Neider, Charles, 1915- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Da Capo Press,
1996.
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| Edition: | 1st Da Capo Press ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Curing a cold
- Aurelia's unfortunate young man
- Info. for the million
- Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
- Lucretia Smith's soldier
- George Washington's boyhood
- Advice to little girls
- "After" Jenkins
- Answers to correspondents
- Mr. Bloke's Item
- From California almanac
- Scriptural panoramist
- Among the spirits
- Sketch of George Washington
- Complaint about correspondents
- Re. chambermaids
- Honored as a curiosity
- About insurances
- Literature in the dry diggings
- Origin of illustrious men
- The recent resignation
- Washington's negro body-servant
- Information wanted
- My late senatorial secretaryship
- Playbill
- Back from "Yurrup"
- Benton house
- Fine old man
- Guying the guides
- Mental photographs
- Beecher's farm
- Turkish bath
- George Fisher
- Article
- History repeats itself
- John Chinaman in New York
- Judge's "Spirited Woman"
- Late Benjamin Franklin
- Map of Paris
- My bloody massacre
- Mysterious visit
- Note on "Petrified man"
- Post-mortem poetry
- Riley-Newspaper correspondent
- Running for Governor
- To raise poultry
- Undertaker's chat
- Widow's protest
- Inspirations of "Two-year-olds"
- About barbers
- Burlesque biography.
- Danger of lying in bed
- Fashion item
- Interview with Artemus Ward
- My first literary venture
- New Beecher Church
- King William III
- "Blanketing" the Admiral
- Deception
- Genuine Mexican Plug
- Great landslide case
- How the author was sold in Newark
- 110 tin whistles
- Lionizing murderers
- Markiss, King of Liars
- Mr. Arkansas
- Nevada Nabobs
- What Hank said to
- Horace Greeley
- When the buffalo climbed a tree
- Curious pleasure excursion
- Rogers
- Speech
- Poems by Twain & Moore
- Encounter with an Interviewer
- Johnny Greer
- Jumping frog
- Office bore
- "Party cries" in Ireland
- Petition re. copyright
- Siamese twins
- Speech at the Scottish banquet
- Speech on accident insurance
- Facts re. recent carnival of crime in Connecticut
- Letter
- Punch, brothers, punch
- Notes of an idle excursion
- Speech on the weather
- Whittier birthday speech.
- About magnanimous-incident literature
- O'Shah
- Great revolution in Pitcairn
- Speech: the babies
- American in Europe
- American party
- Ascending the Riffelberg
- Awful German language
- Great French duel
- King's encore
- Laborious ant
- My long crawl in the dark - Nicodemus Dodge
- Skeleton for a Black Forest novel
- Telephonic conversation
- 2 works of art
- Why Germans wear spectacles
- Young Cholley Adams
- Plymouth Rock & the Pilgrims
- Re. the American language
- Legend of Sagenfeld in Germany
- On the decay of the art of lying
- Paris notes.
- Art of inhumation
- Keelboat talk & manners
- Intro. "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese & English"
- Petition to the Queen of England
- Majestic literary fossil
- About all kinds of ships
- Cure for the blues
- Enemy conquered ...
- Traveling with a Reformer
- Private history of the "Jumping Frog"
- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
- Hell of a hotel at Maryborough
- Indian crow
- At the appetite cure
- Austrian Edison keeping school again
- From "London Times" of 1904
- My first lie...
- My boyhood dreams
- Amended obituaries
- Does the race of man love a Lord?
- Instructions in art
- Italian with grammar
- Italian without a master
- Petrified man
- Dutch Nick massacre.