Portable Mark Twain,9780140150209

Portable Mark Twain

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ISBN13: 9780140150209
ISBN10: 014015020X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1977-03-01
Publisher(s): Viking Pr
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Summary

Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twains favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including the often omitted raftsmen passage.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(35)
Bernard DeVoto
THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY 35(84)
From A Tramp Abroad
43(6)
Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn
From Old Times on the Mississippi
49(70)
``Cub'' Wants to Be a Pilot.
A ``Cub'' Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River.
The Continued Perplexities of ``Cub'' Piloting.
The ``Cub'' Pilot's Education Nearly Completed.
``Sounding.'' Faculties Peculiarly Necessary to a Pilot.
THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED 119(422)
From A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur's Court
143(50)
Freemen.
A Royal Banquet.
The Holy Fountain.
Restoration of the Fountain.
The Yankee's Fight with the Knights.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
193(348)
I Discover Moses and the Bulrushers.
Our Gang's Dark Oath.
We Ambuscade the A-rabs.
The Hair-Ball Oracle.
Pap Starts In on a New Life.
Pap Struggles with the Death Angel.
I Fool Pap and Get Away.
I Spare Miss Watson's Jim.
The House of Death Floats By.
What Comes of Handlin' Snake-Skin.
They're After Us!
``Better Let Blame' Well Alone.''
Honest Loot from the ``Walter Scott.''
Was Solomon Wise?
Fooling Poor Old Jim.
The Rattlesnake-Skin Does Its Work.
The Grangerfords Take Me In.
Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat.
The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard.
What Royalty Did to Pokeville.
An Arkansaw Difficulty.
Why the Lynching Bee Failed.
The Orneriness of Kings.
The King Turns Parson.
All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle.
I Steal the King's Plunder.
Dead Peter Has His Gold.
Overreaching Don't Pay.
I Light Out in the Storm.
The Gold Saves the Thieves.
You Can't Pray a Lie.
I Have a New Name.
The Pitiful Ending of Royalty.
We Cheer Up Jim.
Dark, Deep-Laid Plans.
Trying to Help Jim.
Jim Gets His Witch-Pie.
``Here a Captive Heart Busted.''
Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters.
A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue.
``Must `A' Been Sperits.''
Why They Didn't Hang Jim. Chapter the Last. Nothing More to Write.
FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENSES 541(90)
From Pudd'Nhead Wilson
557(5)
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
From Following the Equator
562(6)
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
From Mark Twain in Eruption
568(47)
Purchasing Civic Virtue
From Europe and Elsewhere
Corn-Pone Opinions
572(7)
The War Prayer
579(5)
The United States of Lyncherdom
584(10)
To the Person Sitting in Darkness
594(21)
From Mark Twain's Autobiography
615(16)
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER 631(156)
Letters
To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
745(2)
To William Dean Howells
747(1)
To William Dean Howells
748(2)
To J. H. Burrough
750(2)
To William Dean Howells
752(4)
To the Reverend J. H. Twichell
756(1)
To William Dean Howells
757(3)
To An Unidentified Person
760(1)
To William Dean Howells
760(1)
To William Dean Howells
761(1)
To Frank A. Nichols
762(1)
To An Unidentified Person
763(1)
To Jeannette Gilder
764(2)
To William Dean Howells
766(1)
To Orion Clemens
767(1)
To Orion Clemens
768(2)
To Andrew Lang
770(3)
To An Unidentified Person
773(3)
To the Gas Company
776(1)
To the Reverend J. H. Twitchell
776(1)
To William Dean Howells
777(1)
To H. H. Rogers
778(2)
To William Dean Howells
780(2)
To Andrew Carnegie
782(1)
To William Dean Howells
782(2)
To the Editor of the New York Times
784(1)
To William Dean Howells
785(1)
To J. Wylie Smith
786(1)
Bibliography 787
John Seelye

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