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

       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