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CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck.--Miss Watson.--Tom Sawyer Waits.

CHAPTER I. Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty--Tom Practices Music--The Challenge--A Private Entrance CHAPTER II. Strong Temptations--Strategic Movements--The Innocents Beguiled CHAPTER...

CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion--Programme of the Trip--Duly Ticketed for the Excursion--Defection of the Celebrities CHAPTER II. Grand Preparations--An Imp...

  Justice and Retribution.

CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.--It is Remarkable.--Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.--It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.--It was F...

A WORD OF EXPLANATION It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about.

CHAPTER I. My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada--I Envy His Prospective Adventures--Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him--My Contentment Complete--Packed in One Hour--Dreams and Visions--On...

Chapter 1 It was in 1590--winter.

Illustrated by Lester Ralph Translated from the Original SATURDAY.--I am almost a whole day old, now.

CHAPTER 1 -- Pudd'nhead Wins His Name _Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick._ --Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the M...

Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) CONTENTS: What Is Man?

CHAPTER I A Tramp over Europe--On the Holsatia--Hamburg--Frankfort-on-the- Main--How it Won its Name--A Lesson in Political Economy--Neatness in Dress--Rhine Legends--"The Knave of Bergen" The Famo...

CHAPTER I. The Party--Across America to Vancouver--On Board the Warrimo--Steamer Chairs--The Captain--Going Home under a Cloud--A Gritty Purser--The Brightest Passenger--Remedy for Bad Habits--The ...

I. It was many years ago.

OSTEOPATHY WATER-SUPPLY MISTAKEN IDENTITY CATS AND CANDY OBITUARY POETRY CIGARS AND TOBACCO BILLIARDS THE UNION RIGHT OR WRONG AN IDEAL FRENCH ADDRESS STATISTICS GALVESTON ORPHA...

CONTENTS: HOW TO TELL A STORY THE WOUNDED SOLDIER THE GOLDEN ARM MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN THE INVALID'S STORY HOW TO TELL A STORY The Humorous Stor...

CHAPTER I Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West.

CHAPTER I My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC By The Sieur Louis De Conte (her page and secretary) In Two Volumes Volume 1. Freely translated out of the ancient French into modern English from the or...

Note: (The title story may also be found as Etext file #1213) CONTENTS: THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG MY FIRST LIE, AND HOW I GOT OUT OF IT THE ESQUIMAUX MAIDEN'S ROMANCE ...

It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper's litera...

MY WATCH--[Written about 1870.] AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping.

he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by goo...

[NOTE.--I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them.

PG EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a compilation of all the works of Mark Twain in the Project Gutenberg Mark Twain collection which now has over sixty files.

PREFATORY NOTE.--Mr. Clemens began to write his autobiography many years ago, and he continues to add to it day by day.

FOREWORD Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters.

things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

FOREWORD Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters.

When Clemens had been platforming with Cable and returned to Hartford for his Christmas vacation, the Warner and Clemens families had joined in preparing for him a surprise performance of...

[Left out of A Tramp Abroad, because it was feared that some of the particulars had been exaggerated, and that others were not true.

CHAPTER I. TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

CHAPTER I Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be f...

The Monday Evening Club of Hartford was an association of most of the literary talent of that city, and it included a number of very distinguished members.

ESSAY, FOR DISCUSSION, READ AT A MEETING OF THE HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN CLUB OF HARTFORD, AND OFFERED FOR THE THIRTY-DOLLAR PRIZE.[*] [*] Did not take the prize.

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY.

No answer.

CHAPTER I. The Earl of Rossmore vs.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel.

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC by The Sieur Louis De Conte (her page and secretary) In Two Volumes Freely translated out of the ancient French into modern English from the original unpu...

QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM MARK TWAIN QUOTATIONS FROM MARK TWAIN SOME OF THE EDITOR'S FAVORITES Aim and object of the law and lawyers was to defeat justice All life seems to be sacred excep...

ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE VOLUME II. ***** To Bret Harte, in San Francisco: WESTMINSTER HOTEL, May 1, 1867.

CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK CHAPTER II. JAKE DUNLAP CHAPTER III. A DIAMOND ROBBERY CHAPTER IV. THE THREE SLEEPERS CHAPTER V. A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS CHAPTER V...

PART I "We ought never to do wrong when people are looking."

Part 4. CHAPTER XVI. WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.

Part 7. CHAPTER XXXI.

I I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might...

NOTE: Most of the sketches in this volume were taken from a series the author wrote for The Galaxy from May, 1870, to April, 1871.