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The complete humorous sketches and tales of Mark Twain now collected for the first time
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Publisher
Hanover House
Publication Date
[1961]
Edition
[first edition]
Language
English
On Shelf
Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
818.4 TWAIN COMPLETE
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818.4 TWAIN COMPLETE
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Curing a cold
Aurelia's unfortunate young man
Information for the million
The killing of Julius Caesar "localized"
Lucretia Smith's soldier
A touching story of George Washington's boyhood
Advice to little girls
"After" Jenkins
Answers to correspondents
Mr. Bloke's item
A page from a Californian almanac
The scriptural panoramist
Among the spirits
Brief biographical sketch of George Washington
A complaint about correspondents
Concerning chambermaids
Honored as a curiosity
An inquiry about insurances
Literature in the dry diggings
Origin of illustrious men
The facts concerning the recent resignation
General Washington's negro body-servant
Information wanted
My late senatorial secretaryship
An ancient playbill
Back from "Yurrup"
The Benton house
A fine old man
Guying the guides
Mental photographs
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's farm
The Turkish bath
The case of George Fisher
An entertaining article
History repeats itself
John Chinaman in New York
The judge's "spirited woman"
The late Benjamin Franklin.
Map of Paris
My bloody massacre
A mysterious visit
Note on "the petrified man"
Post-mortem poetry
Riley-Newspaper correspondent
Running for governor
To raise poultry
The undertaker's chat
The widow's protest
Wit inspiration of the "two-year-olds"
About barbers
A burlesque biography
The danger of lying in bed
A fashion item
First interview with Artemus Ward
My first literary venture
A new Beecher church
Portrait of King William III
"Blanketing" the admiral
A deception
A genuine Mexican plug
The great landslide case
How the author was sold in Newark
A hundred and ten tin whistles
Lionizing murderers
Markiss, king of liars
Mr. Arkansas
Nevada Nabobs
What Hank said to Horace Greeley
When the buffalo climbed a tree
A curious pleasure excursion
Rogers
After-dinner speech
A couple of poems by Twain and Moore
An encounter with an interviewer
Johnny Greer
The jumping frog
The office bore
"Party cries" in Ireland
Petition concerning copyright
The siamese twins
Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London.
Speech on accident insurance
The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut
Letter read at a dinner
Punch, brothers, punch
Some rambling notes of an idle excursion
Speech on the weather
The Whittier birthday speech
About magnanimous-incident literature
O'Shah
The great revolution in Pitcairn
Speech on the babies
American in Europe
An American party
Ascending the Riffelberg
The awful German language
The great French duel
The King's encore
The laborious ant
My long crawl in the dark
Nicodemus Dodge
Skeleton for Black Forest novel
A telephonic conversation
Two works of art
Why Germans wear spectacles
Young Cholley Adams
Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims
Concerning the American language
Legend of Sagenfeld in Germany
On the decay of the art of lying
Paris notes.
The art of inhumation
Keelboat talk and manners
Introduction to "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English"
A petition to the Queen of England
A majestic literary fossil
About all kinds of ships
A cure for the blues
The enemy conquered; or, love triumphant
Traveling with a reformer
Private history of the "jumping frog" story
Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
A hell of a hotel at Maryborough
The Indian crow
At the appetite cure
The Austrian Edison keeping school again
From the "London Times" of 1904
My first lie, and how I got out of it
My boyhood dreams
Amended obituaries
Does the race of man love a Lord?
Instructions in art
Italian with grammar
Italian without a master.
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9780306807022
0385010941595
0385010941595
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