Sketches New and Old, Part 1.
by Mark Twain
★3.8/5
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Chapters (28)
- SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
- Part 1.
- 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
- THE FROG JUMPING OF THE COUNTY OF CALAVERAS
- 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]
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