Author:
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : The Library of America : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, 1992.
Description2 v. ; 21 cm.
Note:[1] 1852-1890 --[2] 1891-1910.
Note:Vol.1: 1852-1890: 1852: The dandy frightening the squatter. - Historical exhibition: a No. 1 ruse. - Editorial agility. - Blabbing government secrets! -- 1859: River intelligence. -- 1861: Ghost life on the Mississippi. -- 1862: Petrified man. -- 1863: Letter from Carson City. - Ye sentimental law student. - All about the fashions. - Letter from Steamboat Springs. - How to cure a cold. - The Lick House ball. - The great prize fight. - A bloody massacre near Carson. - 'Ingomar' over the mountains. -- 1864: Miss Clapp's school. - Doings in Nevada. - those blasted children. - Washoe: 'Information wanted' - The evidence in the case of Smith vs. Jones. - Whereas. - A touching story of George washington's boyhood. - The killing of Julius Caesar 'localized' -- 1865: Important correspondence. - Answers to correspondents. - Advice for good little boys. - Advice for good little girls. - Just 'one more unfortunate' - Real estate versus imaginary possessions, poetically considered. - Jim Smiley and his jumping frog. - 'Mark Twain' on the launch of the steamer 'Capital' - The pioneers' ball. - Uncle Lige. - A rich epigram. - Macdougall vs. Maguire. - The Christmas fireside. -- 1866: Policemen's presents. - What have the police been doing. - The spiritual séance. - A new biography of Washington. - Reflections on the Sabbath. -- 1867: Barnum's first speech in Congress. - Female suffrage: views of Mark Twain. - Female suffrage. - official physic. - A reminiscence of Artemus War. - Jim Wolf and the tom-cats. - Information wanted. - The facts concerning the recent resignation. -- 1868: Woman, an opinion. - General Washington's body-servant. - Colloquy between a slum child and a moral menetor. - My late senatorial secretaryship. - The story of Mamie Grant, the child-missionary. - Cannibalism in the cars. - Private habits of Horace Greeley. - Concerning Gen. Grant's intentions. -- 1869:Open letter to Com. Vanderbilt. - Mr. Beecher and the clergy. - Personal habits of the Siamese twins. - A day at Niagara. - A fine old man. - Journalism in Tennessee. - The last words of great men. - The legend of the Capitoline Venus. - Getting my fortune told. - Back from 'Yurrup' -- 1870: An awful---- terrible medieval romance. - A mysterious visit. - The facts in the great land-slide case. - The new crime. - Curious dream. - About smells. - The facts in the case of the great beef contract. - The story of the good little boy who did not prosper. - Disgraceful persecution of a boy. - Misplaced confidence. - Our precious lunatic. - A couple of sad experiences. - The judge's 'spirited woman' - Breaking it gently. - Post-mortem poetry. - Wit-inspirations of the 'two-year-olds' - The widow's protest. - Report to the Buffalo Female Academy. - How I edited an agricultural paper once. - The 'tournament' in A.D. 1870. - Unburlesquable things. - The late Benjamin Franklin. - A memory. - Domestic missionaries wanted. - Political economy. - John Chinaman in New York. - The noble red man. - The approaching epidemic. - A royal compliment. - Science vs. luck. - Goldsmith's friend abroad again. - Map of Paris. - Riley, newspaper correspondent. - A reminiscence of the back settlements. - A general reply. - Running for governor. - Dogberry in Washington. - My watch: an instructive little tale. -- 1871: The facts in the case of George Fisher, deceased. - The tone-imparting committee. - The danger of lying in bed. - One of mankind's bores. - The indignity put upon the remains of George Holland by the Rev. Mr. Sabine. - A substitute for Rulloff. - About barbers. - A brace of brief lectures on science. - The revised catechism. -- 1872: The secret of Dr. Livingstone's continued voluntary exile. - How I escaped being killed in a duel. -- 1873: Poor little Stephen Girard. - Foster's case. - License of the press. - Fourth of July speech in London. - The ladies. -- 1874: Those annual bills. - The temperance insurrection. - Rogers. - A curious pleasure excursion. - A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it. - An encounter with an interviewer. -- 1875: The 'jumping frog.' In English, then in French. Then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil. - Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup. - Some learned fables for good old boys and girls. - Petition concerning copyright. - 'Party cries' in Ireland. - The curious republic of Gondour. -- 1876: A literary nightmare. - The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut. - [Date, 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the social fireside, in the time of the Tudors. - The canvasser's tale. - The oldest inhabitant: the weather of New England. -- 1877: Francis Lightfoot Lee. - My military history. - The captain's story. - The invalid's story. - Whittier birthday speech. -- 1878: Farewell banquet for Bayard Taylor. - About magnanimous-incident literature. -- 1879: The great revolution in Pitcairn. - Some thoughts on the science of onanism. - A presidential candidate. - The babies. As they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities. - The new postal barbarism. - Postal matters. -- 1880: A telephonic conversation. - Reply to a Boston girl. - Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale. - Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning. - 'Millions in it.' - A cat tale. -- 1881: The benefit of judicious training. - Dinner speech in Montreal. - Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims. - Etiquette. -- 1882: Advice to youth. - The stolen white elephant. - On the decay of the art of lying. - Concerning the American language. - Woman: God bless her. - The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm. -- 1883: On Adam. - Why a Statue of Liberty when we have Adam! -- 1884: Turncoats. - Mock oration on the dead partisan. - 1885: The character of man. - On speech-making reform. - The private history of a campaign that failed. -- 1886: The new dynasty. - Our children. - Taming the bicycle. -- 1887: Letter from the recording angel. - Dinner speech: General Grant's grammar. - Consistency. - Post-prandial oratory. - A petition to the Queen of England. -- 1888: American authors and British pirates. -- 1889: Yale College speech. - The christening yard. - To Walt Whitman. -- 1890: On foreign critics. - Reply to the editory of 'The Art of Authorship.' - An appeal against injudicious swearing.
Note:Vol.2: 1891-1910: 1891: Aix-les-bains. - Playing courier. - Mental telegraphy. -- 1892: The cradle of liberty. -- 1893: The ¤1,000,000 bank-note. - About all kinds of ships. - Extracts from Adam's diary. - Is he living or is he dead? - The Esquimau maiden's romance. - Travelling with a reformer. - Concerning tobacco. -- 1894: Private history of the 'Jumping Frog' story. - Macfarlane. -- 1895: What Paul Bourget thinks of us. - Fenimore Cooper's literary offences. - Fenimore Cooper's further literary offenses. - How to tell a story. -- 1896: Man's place in the animal world. -- 1897: In memoriam. - Which was the dream? -- 1898: A word of encouragement for our blushing exile. - About play-acting. - From the 'London Times' of 1904. - My platonic sweetheart. - The great dark. -- 1899: Diplomatic pay and clothes. - Concerning the Jews. - Christian science and the book of Mrs. Eddy. - The man that corrupted hadleyburg. - My first lie and how I got out of it. -- 1900: My boyhood dreams. - Introducing Winston S. Churchill. - A salutation-speech from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, taken down in short-hand by Mark Twain. -- 1901: To the person sitting in darkness. - Battle hymn of the republic (brought down to date) - As regards patriotism - The United States of lyncherdom. - Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany. - Two little tales. - Corn-pone opinions. -- 1902: Does the race of man love a lord? - The five boons of life. - Was it heaven? or hell? - The dervish and the offensive stranger. -- 1903: Why not abolish it? - Mark Twain, able yachtsman, on why Lipton failed to lift the cup. - A dog's tale. - 'Was the world made for man?' -- 1904: Italian without a master. - Saint Joan of Arc. - The $30,000 bequest. -- 1905: Concerning copyright. - Adam's soliloquy. - The Czar's soliloquy. - Dr. Loeb's incredible discovery. - The war prayer. - A humane word from Satan. - Christian citizenship. - King Leopold's soliloquy: a defense of his Congo rule. - A helpless situation. - Overspeeding. - In the animal's court. - Eve's diary. - Eve speaks. - Seventieth birthday dinner speech. - Old age. -- 1906. The Gorky incident. - William Dean Howells. - What is man? - Hunting the deceitful turkey. -- 1907: Dinner speech at Annapolis. - Our guest. - The day we celebrate. - Little Nelly tells a story out of her own head. - Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven. -- 1908: Little Bessie. -- 1909: The new planet. - A fable. - Letters from the earth. -- 1910: 'The turning point of my life' -- Appendix: More maxims of Mark.
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