Sketches New and Old
by Mark Twain
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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain by Mark Twain Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories—except for "The Case of George Fisher"—by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the ...
Chapters (142)
- SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
- Complete
- CONTENTS:
- SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
- Part 1.
- MY WATCH
- AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE—[Written about 1870.]
- POLITICAL ECONOMY
- THE JUMPING FROG
- [written about 1865]
- IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL.
- THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY [Pronounced Cal-e-va-ras]
- THE JUMPING FROG
- JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE
- [written about 1871]
- SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
- SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
- THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY
- [written about 1865]
- THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY
- [Written about 1865]
- A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE
- [written about 1865]
- THOSE EVENING BELLS
- THOSE ANNUAL BILLS
- NIAGARA
- [written about 1871]
- ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
- [written about 1865]
- TO RAISE POULTRY
- [Being a letter written to a Poultry Society that had conferred a complimentary membership upon the author. Written about 1870.]
- EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP
- [As related to the author of this book by Mr. McWilliams, a pleasant New York gentleman whom the said author met by chance on a journey.]
- MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE
- [written about 1865]
- HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK
- [written about 1869]
- THE OFFICE BORE
- [written about 1869]
- JOHNNY GREER
- THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT
- [written about 1867]
- THE UNITED STATES
- THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER
- The United States in account with the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased.
- DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY
- THE JUDGE’S “SPIRITED WOMAN”
- INFORMATION WANTED
- SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS IN THREE PARTS
- PART FIRST HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD SENT OUT A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION
- SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS PART SECOND HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD COMPLETED THEIR SCIENTIFIC LABORS
- SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS
- PART THIRD
- MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP
- [written about 1867]
- A FASHION ITEM
- [written about 1867]
- RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
- A FINE OLD MAN
- SCIENCE V.S. LUCK
- [written about 1867]
- THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- [written about 1870]
- MR. BLOKE’S ITEM
- [written about 1865]
- A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868]
- CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.
- CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS
- CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS
- CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION
- CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE
- PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT
- TO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
- A PARAGRAPH NOT ADDED TO THE PETITION
- AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
- [AT A FOURTH OF JULY GATHERING, IN LONDON, OF AMERICANS]
- LIONIZING MURDERERS
- A NEW CRIME
- LEGISLATION NEEDED
- A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.]
- CONTAINING A MORAL
- GONE TO HIS JUST REWARD’
- A TRUE STORY
- REPEATED WORD FOR WORD AS I HEARD IT—[Written about 1876]
- THE SIAMESE TWINS
- [Written about 1868.]
- SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON
- [Written about 1872.]
- A GHOST STORY
- THE CAPITOLINE VENUS
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE
- DELIVERED IN HARTFORD, AT A DINNER TO CORNELIUS WALFORD, OF LONDON
- JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK
- HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER
- [Written about 1870.]
- THE PETRIFIED MAN
- MY BLOODY MASSACRE
- THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT
- CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS
- AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN
- [Written about 1865.]
- "AFTER” JENKINS
- ABOUT BARBERS
- "PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND
- THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about 1867]
- WASHINGTON, December, 1867.
- HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
- HONORED AS A CURIOSITY
- FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD
- [Written about 1870.]
- CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS
- [Written about 1867.]
- THE STRANGER’S NARRATIVE
- THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR “LOCALIZED”
- [Written about 1865.]
- THE WIDOW’S PROTEST
- THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST
- [Written about 1866.]
- CURING A COLD
- [Written about 1864]
- A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION
- [Published at the time of the “Comet Scare” in the summer of 1874]
- ADVERTISEMENT
- DEPARTURE OF THE COMET
- THE POSTAL SERVICE
- THE INHABITANTS OF STARS
- A GREAT FORCE OF MISSIONARIES,
- THE DOG STAR
- A STUPENDOUS VOYAGE
- FIRST-CLASS FARE
- OLD RAMSHACKLE COMETS
- WE CARRY BULLETIN-BOARDS
- FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS,
- RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR
- [Written about 1870.]
- A MYSTERIOUS VISIT
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