Authors: Mark Twain, Tom Quirk
ISBN-13: 9780142437759, ISBN-10: 0142437751
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens -- the man behind the figure of Mark Twain -- led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.
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 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.
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County (1865) | 5 | |
How I edited an agricultural journal once (1870) | 12 | |
The story of the old ram | 18 | |
Buck Fanshaw's funeral | 23 | |
Letters from Greeley | 31 | |
An encounter with an interviewer (1874) | 38 | |
A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it (1874) | 43 | |
The Sea of Galilee | 51 | |
At the tomb of Adam | 58 | |
Colonel Sellers entertains Washington Hawkins | 63 | |
Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn | 79 | |
The hair trunk | 86 | |
The river and its history | 93 | |
The boys' ambition | 99 | |
Perplexing lessons | 104 | |
Continued perplexities | 111 | |
Sunrise on the river | 118 | |
The house beautiful | 119 | |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) | 125 | |
The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) | 415 | |
The Yankee in search of adventures | 441 | |
The holy fountain | 448 | |
Extracts from Adam's diary (1893) | 455 | |
From The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), from Following the equator (1897) | 469 | |
From The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson "Pudd'nhead Wilson's calendar" | 471 | |
Pudd'nhead Wilson's new calendar | 476 | |
Decimating the savages | 483 | |
To the person sitting in darkness (1901) | 489 | |
Corn-pone opinions (1901) | 509 | |
Early days (1907) | 517 | |
Speeches | 535 | |
Farewell banquet for Bayard Taylor (1878) | 537 | |
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims (1881) | 541 | |
Advice to youth (1882) | 547 | |
The alphabet and simplified spelling (1907) | 551 | |
Education and citizenship (1908) | 554 | |
Letters | 557 | |
To Mrs. Jane Clemens and Mrs. Moffett, 1/20/1866 | 559 | |
To W. D. Howells, 12/8/1874 | 559 | |
To W. D. Howells, 8/9/1876 | 560 | |
To J. H. Burrough, 11/1/1876 | 562 | |
To the Reverend J. H. Twichell, 1/26/1879 | 564 | |
To Orion Clemens and family, 7/21/1883 | 565 | |
To Frank A. Nichols, Secretary, Concord Free Trade Club, 3/1885 | 566 | |
To Jeannette Gilder (not mailed), 5/14/1887 | 568 | |
To Andrew Lang, early 1890 | 568 | |
Fragment of letter to -, 1891 | 571 | |
To Susan Crane, 3/19/1893 | 573 | |
To Major "Jack" Downing, 2/26/1899 | 573 | |
To W. D. Howells, 4/2/1899 | 574 | |
To Reverend J. H. Twichell, 2/1902 | 575 | |
To Miss Picard, 2/22/1902 | 577 | |
To Robert Fulton, 5/24/1905 | 578 |