Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866

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Author

Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937

Title

Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Humorists, American -- 19th century -- Biography

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Text

eBook-No.

2982

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2982

Release Date

October 4, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Mark Twain A Biography — The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens — by Albert Bigelow Paine — VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
4. 4.PREFATORY NOTE
5. 5.MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY
6. 6.I ANCESTORS
7. 7.II THE FORTUNES OF JOHN AND JANE CLEMENS
8. 8.III A HUMBLE BIRTHPLACE
9. 9.IV BEGINNING A LONG JOURNEY
10. 10.V THE WAY OF FORTUNE
11. 11.VI A NEW HOME
12. 12.VII THE LITTLE TOWN OF HANNIBAL
13. 13.VIII THE FARM
14. 14.IX SCHOOL-DAYS
15. 15.X EARLY VICISSITUDE AND SORROW
16. 16.XI DAYS OF EDUCATION
17. 17.XII TOM SAWYER’S BAND
18. 18.XIII THE GENTLER SIDE
19. 19.XIV THE PASSING OF JOHN CLEMENS
20. 20.XV A YOUNG BEN FRANKLIN
21. 21.XVI THE TURNING-POINT
22. 22.XVII THE HANNIBAL “JOURNAL”
23. 23.XVIII THE BEGINNING OF A LITERARY LIFE
24. 24.XIX IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANKLIN
25. 25.XX KEOKUK DAYS
26. 26.XXI SCOTCHMAN NAMED MACFARLANE
27. 27.XXII THE OLD CALL OF THE RIVER
28. 28.XXIII THE SUPREME SCIENCE
29. 29.XXIV THE RIVER CURRICULUM
30. 30.XXV LOVE-MAKING AND ADVENTURE
31. 31.XXVI THE TRAGEDY OF THE “PENNSYLVANIA”
32. 32.XXVII THE PILOT
33. 33.XXVIII PILOTING AND PROPHECY
34. 34.XXIX THE END OF PILOTING
35. 35.XXX THE SOLDIER
36. 36.XXXI OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
37. 37.XXXII THE PIONEER
38. 38.XXXIII THE PROSPECTOR
39. 39.XXXIV TERRITORIAL CHARACTERISTICS
40. 40.XXXV THE MINER
41. 41.XXXVI LAST MINING DAYS
42. 42.XXXVII THE NEW ESTATE
43. 43.XXXVIII ONE OF THE “STAFF”
44. 44.XXXIX PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY
45. 45.XL “MARK TWAIN”
46. 46.XLI THE CREAM OF COMSTOCK HUMOR
47. 47.XLII REPORTORIAL DAYS.
48. 48.XLIII ARTEMUS WARD
49. 49.XLIV GOVERNOR OF THE “THIRD HOUSE”
50. 50.XLV A COMSTOCK DUEL
51. 51.XLVI GETTING SETTLED IN SAN FRANCISCO
52. 52.XLVII BOHEMIAN DAYS
53. 53.XLVIII THE REFUGE OF THE HILLS
54. 54.XLIX THE JUMPING FROG
55. 55.L BACK TO THE TUMULT
56. 56.LI THE CORNER-STONE
57. 57.LII A COMMISSION TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
58. 58.LIII ANSON BURLINGAME AND THE “HORNET” DISASTER

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