Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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Chapters (59)
- Mark Twain A Biography
- The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866
- AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- PREFATORY NOTE
- MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY
- I ANCESTORS
- II THE FORTUNES OF JOHN AND JANE CLEMENS
- III A HUMBLE BIRTHPLACE
- IV BEGINNING A LONG JOURNEY
- V THE WAY OF FORTUNE
- VI A NEW HOME
- VII THE LITTLE TOWN OF HANNIBAL
- VIII THE FARM
- IX SCHOOL-DAYS
- X EARLY VICISSITUDE AND SORROW
- XI DAYS OF EDUCATION
- XII TOM SAWYER’S BAND
- XIII THE GENTLER SIDE
- XIV THE PASSING OF JOHN CLEMENS
- XV A YOUNG BEN FRANKLIN
- XVI THE TURNING-POINT
- XVII THE HANNIBAL “JOURNAL”
- XVIII THE BEGINNING OF A LITERARY LIFE
- XIX IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANKLIN
- XX KEOKUK DAYS
- XXI SCOTCHMAN NAMED MACFARLANE
- XXII THE OLD CALL OF THE RIVER
- XXIII THE SUPREME SCIENCE
- XXIV THE RIVER CURRICULUM
- XXV LOVE-MAKING AND ADVENTURE
- XXVI THE TRAGEDY OF THE “PENNSYLVANIA”
- XXVII THE PILOT
- XXVIII PILOTING AND PROPHECY
- XXIX THE END OF PILOTING
- XXX THE SOLDIER
- XXXI OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
- XXXII THE PIONEER
- XXXIII THE PROSPECTOR
- XXXIV TERRITORIAL CHARACTERISTICS
- XXXV THE MINER
- XXXVI LAST MINING DAYS
- XXXVII THE NEW ESTATE
- XXXVIII ONE OF THE “STAFF”
- XXXIX PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY
- XL “MARK TWAIN”
- XLI THE CREAM OF COMSTOCK HUMOR
- XLII REPORTORIAL DAYS.
- XLIII ARTEMUS WARD
- XLIV GOVERNOR OF THE “THIRD HOUSE”
- XLV A COMSTOCK DUEL
- XLVI GETTING SETTLED IN SAN FRANCISCO
- XLVII BOHEMIAN DAYS
- XLVIII THE REFUGE OF THE HILLS
- XLIX THE JUMPING FROG
- L BACK TO THE TUMULT
- LI THE CORNER-STONE
- LII A COMMISSION TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
- LIII ANSON BURLINGAME AND THE “HORNET” DISASTER
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