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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Sketches, new and old. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)645884960 |
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| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Twain |
| ISBN: | 0195101359 9780195101355 0195101316 9780195101317 0195114000 9780195114003 0195090888 9780195090888 0195113454 9780195113457 0195114043 9780195114041 |
| OCLC Number: | 34513474 |
| Description: | xliii, 320, 37 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | My watch: an instructive little tale -- Political economy --The jumping frog -- Journalism in Tennessee -- Story of the bad little boy --Story of the good little boy -- Two poems by Moore and Twain -- A visit to Niagara -- Answers to correspondents -- To raise poultry -- The experiences of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- My first literary adventure -- How the author was sold in Newark -- The office bore -- Johnny Greer -- The facts in the case of the great beef contract -- The facts in the case of George Fisher, deceased -- Disgraceful persecution of a boy -- The judge's "spirited women" -- Information wanted -- Some fables for good old boys and girls -- The facts concerning the late senatorial secretaryship -- A fashion item -- Riley, Newspaper correspondent -- A fine old man. Science vs. luck -- The killing of Julius Caesar "localized" --An item which the editor himself could not understand -- The widow's protest -- A mediaeval romance -- Petition concerning copyright -- After-dinner speech -- Lionising murderers -- A new crime -- A curious dream -- A true story just as I heard it -- Personal habits of the Siamese twins -- Speech at the Scottish banquet at London -- A ghost story -- Legend of the Capitoline Venus -- Speech on accident insurance -- John Chinaman in New York -- How I once edited an agricultural paper -- The petrified man -- My bloody massacre -- The undertaker's chat -- Concerning chambermaids --"After" Jenkins -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- About barbers --"Party cries" in Ireland -- The facts concerning the recent resignation. History repeats itself -- Honored as a curiosity -- The late Benjamin Franklin -- The "blind letter" department, London, P.O. -- First interview with Artemus Ward -- Cannibalism in the cars -- The scriptural panoramist -- From "Hospital days" -- Curing a cold -- A curious pleasure excursion -- Running for governor -- A mysterious visit. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, Lee Smith ; afterword, Sherwood Cummings. |
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Abstract:
63 short stories about everyday people.
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