Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1962]
Description388 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Riverside editions, A58
Note:APPRENTICE PIECES: The dandy frightening the squatter. - from Letter to Annie Taylor. - Letter from Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. - River intelligence.- A Washoe joke. -- RISE TO FAME: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County. - Story of the bad little boy. - Arrival at Honolulu. - In the station house. - Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats. - The tomb of Adam. - Jim Blaine and his grandfather's old ram. - A genuine Mexican plug. - Lost in the snow. -- MARK TWAIN IN HIS PRIME: A true story. - Old times on the Mississippi. - The boys' ambition. - I want to be a cub-pilot. - A cub-pilot's experience. - A daring deed. - Perplexing lessons. - Continued perplexities. - Completing my education. - The river rises. - Sounding. - A pilot's need. - Rank and dignity of piloting. - The pilots' monopoly. -- An encounter with an interviewer. - The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut. - The Whittier birthday speech. - The great revolution in Pitcairn. - The babies. - Baker's blue-jay yarn. - The awful German language. - Frescoes from the past. - The private history of a campaign that failed. -- LITERARY ESSAYS: The art of authorship. - Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses. - How to tell a story. -- ON 'THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE': The man that corrupted Hadleyburg. - To the person sitting in darkness. - The mysterious stranger.
