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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, COMPLETE

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, COMPLETE

by Mark Twain

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Author
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Title
Sketches New and Old
Credits
Produced by David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
3189
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3189
Release Date
June 27, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.SKETCHES NEW AND OLD — by Mark Twain — Complete
  2. 2.CONTENTS: — SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
  3. 3.Part 1.
  4. 4.MY WATCH — AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE—[Written about 1870.]
  5. 5.POLITICAL ECONOMY
  6. 6.THE JUMPING FROG — [written about 1865] — IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL. — THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY [Pronounced Cal-e-va-ras] — THE JUMPING FROG
  7. 7.JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE — [written about 1871] — SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS — SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
  8. 8.THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY — [written about 1865]
  9. 9.THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY — [Written about 1865]
  10. 10.A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE — [written about 1865] — THOSE EVENING BELLS — THOSE ANNUAL BILLS
  11. 11.NIAGARA — [written about 1871]
  12. 12.ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS — [written about 1865]
  13. 13.TO RAISE POULTRY — [Being a letter written to a Poultry Society that had conferred a complimentary membership upon the author. Written about 1870.]
  14. 14.EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP — [As related to the author of this book by Mr. McWilliams, a pleasant New York gentleman whom the said author met by chance on a journey.]
  15. 15.MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE — [written about 1865]
  16. 16.HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK — [written about 1869]
  17. 17.THE OFFICE BORE — [written about 1869]
  18. 18.JOHNNY GREER
  19. 19.THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT — [written about 1867] — THE UNITED STATES
  20. 20.THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER — The United States in account with the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased.
  21. 21.DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY
  22. 22.THE JUDGE’S “SPIRITED WOMAN”
  23. 23.INFORMATION WANTED
  24. 24.SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS IN THREE PARTS — PART FIRST HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD SENT OUT A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION — SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS PART SECOND HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD COMPLETED THEIR SCIENTIFIC LABORS — SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS — PART THIRD
  25. 25.MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP — [written about 1867]
  26. 26.A FASHION ITEM — [written about 1867]
  27. 27.RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
  28. 28.A FINE OLD MAN
  29. 29.SCIENCE V.S. LUCK — [written about 1867]
  30. 30.THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN — [written about 1870]
  31. 31.MR. BLOKE’S ITEM — [written about 1865]
  32. 32.A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868] — CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED. — CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS — CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS — CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION — CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE
  33. 33.PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT — TO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED — A PARAGRAPH NOT ADDED TO THE PETITION
  34. 34.AFTER-DINNER SPEECH — [AT A FOURTH OF JULY GATHERING, IN LONDON, OF AMERICANS]
  35. 35.LIONIZING MURDERERS
  36. 36.A NEW CRIME — LEGISLATION NEEDED
  37. 37.A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.] — CONTAINING A MORAL — GONE TO HIS JUST REWARD’
  38. 38.A TRUE STORY — REPEATED WORD FOR WORD AS I HEARD IT—[Written about 1876]
  39. 39.THE SIAMESE TWINS — [Written about 1868.]
  40. 40.SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON — [Written about 1872.]
  41. 41.A GHOST STORY
  42. 42.THE CAPITOLINE VENUS — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — CHAPTER IV. — CHAPTER V. — CHAPTER VI.
  43. 43.SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE — DELIVERED IN HARTFORD, AT A DINNER TO CORNELIUS WALFORD, OF LONDON
  44. 44.JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK
  45. 45.HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER — [Written about 1870.]
  46. 46.THE PETRIFIED MAN
  47. 47.MY BLOODY MASSACRE
  48. 48.THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT
  49. 49.CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS
  50. 50.AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN — [Written about 1865.]
  51. 51."AFTER” JENKINS
  52. 52.ABOUT BARBERS
  53. 53."PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND
  54. 54.THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about 1867] — WASHINGTON, December, 1867.
  55. 55.HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
  56. 56.HONORED AS A CURIOSITY
  57. 57.FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD — [Written about 1870.]
  58. 58.CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS — [Written about 1867.] — THE STRANGER’S NARRATIVE
  59. 59.THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR “LOCALIZED” — [Written about 1865.]
  60. 60.THE WIDOW’S PROTEST
  61. 61.THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST — [Written about 1866.]
  62. 62.CURING A COLD — [Written about 1864]
  63. 63.A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION — [Published at the time of the “Comet Scare” in the summer of 1874] — ADVERTISEMENT — DEPARTURE OF THE COMET — THE POSTAL SERVICE — THE INHABITANTS OF STARS — A GREAT FORCE OF MISSIONARIES, — THE DOG STAR — A STUPENDOUS VOYAGE — FIRST-CLASS FARE — OLD RAMSHACKLE COMETS — WE CARRY BULLETIN-BOARDS — FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS,
  64. 64.RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR — [Written about 1870.]
  65. 65.A MYSTERIOUS VISIT

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