The Portable Mark Twain,9780142437759

The Portable Mark Twain

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ISBN13: 9780142437759
ISBN10: 0142437751
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-11-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

The essential works of the great American humorist Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favourite 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.

Author Biography

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, near the Mississippi River. He was celebrated for his uncompromising stands against injustice and imperialism and for his invariably quoted comments on any subject under the sun.

Tom Quirk is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
Suggestions for Further Reading xli
Note on Texts xlvii
Chronology li
Tales and Sketches
1(48)
``The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'' (1865)
5(7)
``How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once'' (1870)
12(6)
From Roughing It (1872)
``The Story of the Old Ram''
18(5)
``Buck Fanshaw's Funeral''
23(8)
``Letters from Greeley''
31(7)
``An Encounter with an Interviewer'' (1874)
38(5)
``A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It'' (1874)
43(6)
From the Innocents Abroad (1869)
49(12)
``The Sea of Galilee''
51(7)
``At the Tomb of Adam''
58(3)
From the Gilded Age (1873)
61(16)
``Colonel Sellers Entertains Washington Hawkins''
63(14)
From A Tramp Abroad (1880)
77(14)
``Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn''
79(7)
``The Hair Trunk''
86(5)
From Life on the Mississippi (1883)
91(34)
``The River and Its History''
93(6)
``The Boys' Ambition''
99(5)
``Perplexing Lessons''
104(7)
``Continued Perplexities''
111(7)
``Sunrise on the River''
118(1)
``The House Beautiful''
119(6)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
125(290)
Civilizing Huck
Miss Watson
Tom Sawyer Waits
The Boys Escape Jim
Tom Sawyer's Gang
Deep-laid Plans
A Good Going-over
Grace Triumphant
``One of Tom Sawyer's Lies''
Huck and the Judge
Superstition
Huck's Father
The Fond Parent
Reform
He Went for Judge Thatcher
Huck Decided to Leave
Political Economy
Thrashing Around
Laying for Him
Locked in the Cabin
Sinking the Body
Resting
Sleeping in the Woods
Raising the Dead
Exploring the Island
Finding Jim
Jim's Escape
Signs
``Balum''
The Cave
The Floating House
The Find
Old Hank Bunker
In Disguise
Huck and the Woman
The Search
Prevarication
Going to Goshen
Slow Navigation
Borrowing Things
Boarding the Wreck
The Plotters
Hunting for the Boat
Escaping from the Wreck
The Watchman
Sinking
A General Good Time
The Harem
French
Huck Loses the Raft
In the Fog
Huck Finds the Raft
Trash
``Give Us a Rest
The Corpse-Maker Crows
``The Child of Calamity''
They Both Weaken
Little Davy Steps In
After the Battle
Ed's Adventures
Something Queer
A Haunted Barrel
It Brings a Storm
The Barrel Pursues
Killed by Lightning
Allbright Atones
Ed Gets Mad
Snake or Boy?
``Snake Him Out''
Some Lively Lying
Off and Overboard
Expectation
A White Lie
Floating Currency
Running by Cairo
Swimming Ashore
An Evening Call
The Farm in Arkansaw
Interior Decorations
Stephen Dowling Bots
Poetical Effusion
Col. Grangerford
Aristocracy
Feuds
The Testament
Recovering the Raft
The Wood-pile
Pork and Cabbage
Tying Up Day-times
An Astronomical Theory
Running a Temperance Revival
The Duke of Bridgewater
The Troubles of Royalty
Huck Explains
Laying Out a Campaign
Working the Camp-meeting
A Pirate at the Camp-meeting
The Duke as a Printer
Sword Exercise
Hamlet's Soliloquy
They Loafed Around Town
A Lazy Town
Old Boggs
Dead
Sherburn
Attending the Circus
Intoxication in the Ring
The Thrilling Tragedy
``Sold!''
Royal Comparisons
Jim Gets Home-sick
Jim in Royal Robes
They Take a Passenger
Getting Information
Family Grief
``Is It Them?''
Singing the ``Doxologer''
Awful Square
Funeral Orgies
A Bad Investment
A Pious King
The King's Clergy
She Asked His Pardon
Hiding in the Room
Huck Takes the Money
The Funeral
Satisfying Curiosity
Suspicious of Huck
Quick Sales and Small Profits
The Trip to England
``The Brute!''
Mary Jane Decides to Leave
Huck Parting with Mary Jane
Mumps
The Opposition Line
Contested Relationship
The King Explains the Loss
A Question of Handwriting
Digging up the Corpse
Huck Escapes
The King Went for Him
A Royal Row
Powerful Mellow
Ominous Plans
News from Jim
Old Recollections
A Sheep Story
Valuable Information
Still and Sunday-like
Mistaken Identity
Up a Stump
In a Dilemma
A Nigger Stealer
Southern Hospitality
A Pretty Long Blessing
Tar and Feathers
The Hut by the Ash Hopper
Outrageous
Climbing the Lightning Rod
Troubled with Witches
Escaping Properly
Dark Schemes
Discrimination in Stealing
A Deep Hole
The Lightning Rod
His Level Best
A Bequest to Posterity
A High Figure
The Last Shirt
Mooning Around
Sailing Orders
The Witch Pie
The Coat of Arms
A Skilled Superintendent
Unpleasant Glory
A Tearful Subject
Rats
Lively Bed-fellows
The Straw Dummy
Fishing
The Vigilance Committee
A Lively Run
Jim Advises a Doctor
The Doctor
Uncle Silas
Sister Hotchkiss
Aunt Sally in Trouble
Tom Sawyer Wounded
The Doctor's Story
Tom Confesses
Aunt Polly Arrives
Hand Out Them Letters
Chapter the Last
Out of Bondage
Paying the Captive
Yours Truly, Huck Finn
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885)
415(24)
From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
439(16)
``The Yankee in Search of Adventures''
441(7)
``The Holy Fountain''
448(7)
Extracts From Adam's Diary (1893)
455(14)
From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), from Following The Equator (1897)
469(2)
From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson ``Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar''
471(18)
From Following the Equator
``Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar''
476(7)
``Decimating the Savages''
483(6)
To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
489(20)
Corn-Pone Opinions (1901)
509(8)
Early Days (1907)
517(18)
Speeches
535(22)
Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor (1878)
537(4)
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims (1881)
541(6)
Advice to Youth (1882)
547(4)
The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (1907)
551(3)
Education and Citizenship (1908)
554(3)
Letters
557(24)
To Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett, 1/20/1866
559(1)
To W. D. Howells, 12/8/1874
559(1)
To W. D. Howells, 8/9/1876
560(2)
To J. H. Burrough, 11/1/1876
562(2)
To the Reverend J. H. Twichell, 1/26/1879
564(1)
To Orion Clemens and Family, 7/21/1883
565(1)
To Frank A. Nichols, Secretary, Concord Free Trade Club, 3/1885
566(2)
To Jeannette Gilder (not mailed), 5/14/1887
568(1)
To Andrew Lang, early 1890
568(3)
Fragment of letter to---, 1891
571(2)
To Susan Crane, 3/19/1893
573(1)
To Major ``Jack'' Downing, 2/26/1899
573(1)
To W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899
574(1)
To Reverend J. H. Twichell, 2/1902
575(2)
To Miss Picard, 2/22/1902
577(1)
To Robert Fulton, 5/24/1905
578(3)
Biographical List of Correspondents 581

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