Sketches New and Old. Марк Твен

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664111548

Table of Contents

       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