Moments With Mark Twain

About this eBook

Author

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Title

Moments with Mark Twain

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American literature

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61338

Release Date

February 7, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Moments With MARK TWAIN
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.FROM “SKETCHES NEW AND OLD” (1865–67) — Answers to Correspondents — How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
5. 5.FROM “THE INNOCENTS ABROAD” (1867–68) — On Keeping a Journal — The “Quaker City” in a Storm — The Beautiful Stranger — Tangier — American Beauties — An Early Memory — At the Ambrosian Library — Our Need of Repose — Venice — At Pisa — Christian Persuasion — Taking It Out of the Guides — A Surfeit of Art — At Pompeii — Fame — Athens from the Acropolis — Constantinople — Turkish Journalism — The Camel — At Noah’s Tomb — Damascus — At Banias — A Healer in Palestine — The Bible — Galilee at Night — Distance in the East — A Pleasant Incident — Sacred Marvels — At Adam’s Grave — The Wandering Jew — Bedouins — A Smitten Land — The Sphinx — Memories of the Pilgrimage
6. 6.FROM “ROUGHING IT” — Starting West (1870–71) — George Bemis and “The Allen” — The Overland Stage — Morning on the Plains — The Cayote — The Pony Rider — Indian Country — At the Summit of the Rockies — Incidents by the Way — Mormon Beauties — The Alkali Desert — Arrival in Carson City — Lake Tahoe — Selling Out a Mine — Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral — An Abandoned Town — A Hawaiian Temple — A Hawaiian Statesman — Hawaiian Religion — The Crater of Haleakala
7. 7.FROM “THE GILDED AGE” (1873) — Colonel Seller’s Great Idea — Colonel Sellers Lets Himself Out
8. 8.FROM “ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER” (1874–5) — A Speculation in Whitewash — Tom Falls in Love — Huck — The Pirates’ Island — Tom Learns to Smoke
9. 9.FROM “THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT” (1878) — Describing an Elephant
10. 10.FROM “A TRAMP ABROAD” (1878–9) — Wagner — Midnight Entertainment — Foreign Quotations — Reflections on the Ant — Foreign Quotations Again — The Jungfrau — Climbing the Gemmi Pass — Descent of Gemmi Pass — Alp Climbing — The Old Masters
11. 11.FROM “LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI” (1874–5) — The Permanent Ambition — First Lessons in Piloting — Perplexing Lessons — A Test of Courage
12. 12.FROM “THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER” (1877–80) — Births of High and Low Degree — The Canty Home — London Bridge — Tom Canty, King — The Little King in Prison — Tom Canty the First — Tom Is Recognized
13. 13.FROM “THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN” (1876–83) — Huck and Nigger Jim [3] Start on their Long Drift — The Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud [4]
14. 14.FROM “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT” (1886–7) — Meeting the Yankee — The Stranger’s History — The Round Table [7] — The Yankee Reflects — Perfect Government — Maids in Distress — A Knight’s Average — Sixth Century Kingdoms — Nature — Conscience — The German Tongue [8] — Government by the People — Prophecy — Hard Work — Still Hope — The Human Race — The King in Slavery [9]
15. 15.FROM “RAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSION” (1877) — What We Saw in Bermuda
16. 16.FROM “PUDD’NHEAD WILSON’S CALENDAR” (1892–3)
17. 17.FROM “THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED” (1885) — The Marion Rangers
18. 18.FROM “THE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC” — Joan — The Fairy Tree — L’Arbre Fée de Bourlemont. — Joan Before Rheims — Joan’s Reward
19. 19.FROM “SAINT JOAN OF ARC” (1899)
20. 20.FROM “FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR” Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar (1896–7) — Art — Italian Cigars
21. 21.FROM “CONCERNING THE JEWS” (1898) — The Human Being — The Immortal Race
22. 22.FROM “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” (1898) — The C. S. Healer
23. 23.FROM “ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER” (1903) — The Home Product — The Charm of Uncertainty
24. 24.FROM “EVE’S DIARY” (1905) — Her Chief Desire — At Eve’s Grave — William Dean Howells (1905)
25. 25.MISCELLANEOUS (1905–9) — Making the Oyster — The Fatality of Sequence — Life’s Turning Point — Close of Seventieth Birthday Speech — The Future Life — Religion
26. 26.FROM “THE DEATH OF JEAN” (1909)
27. 27.FROM “ONE OF HIS LATEST MEMORANDA” (1909) — The Impartial Friend

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