Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (Annotated and Illustrated)

Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (Annotated and Illustrated)

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781521099360

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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Mark Twain's 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.ContentsMy watch -- Political economy -- The jumping frog -- Journalism in Tennessee -- The story of the bad little boy -- The story of the good little boy -- A couple of poems by Twain and Moore -- Niagara -- Answers to correspondents -- To raise poultry -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- My first literary venture -- How the author was sold in Newark -- The office bore -- Johnny Greer -- The facts in the case of the great beef contract -- The case of George Fisher -- Disgraceful persecution of a boy -- The judge's "spirited woman" -- Information wanted -- Some learned fables for good old boys and girls -- My late senatorial secretaryship -- A fashion item -- Riley, Newspaper correspondent -- A fine old man -- Science vs. luck -- The late Benjamin Franklin -- Mr. Bloke's item -- A medieval romance -- Petition concerning copyright -- After-dinner speech -- Lionising murderers -- A new crime -- A curious dream -- A true story -- The Siamese twins -- Speech at the Scottish banquet at London -- A ghost story -- The Capitoline Venus -- Speech on accident insurance -- John Chinaman in New York -- How I once edited an agricultural paper -- The petrified man -- My bloody massacre -- The undertaker's chat -- Concerning chambermaids -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- "After" Jenkins -- About barbers -- "Party cries" in Ireland -- The facts concerning the recent resignation -- History repeats itself -- Honored as a curiosity -- First interview with Artemus Ward -- Cannibalism in the cars -- The killing of Julius Caesar "localized" -- The widow's protest -- The scriptural panoramist -- Curing a cold -- A curious pleasure excursion -- Running for governor -- A mysterious visit.


Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain

Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781976572128

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Why buy our paperbacks? Expedited shipping High Quality Paper Made in USA Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated 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 difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly; complaints about barbers and office bores; and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twain's hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. "What fascinates Twain," Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people "react to the things that happen to them." Twain "lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot; words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man"--or woman. "The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection" Smith writes, is one "told by a freed slave." The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.


Mark Twain's Comedy Classics: 190+ Stories & Sketches (Illustrated Edition)

Mark Twain's Comedy Classics: 190+ Stories & Sketches (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 2932

ISBN-13: 8026878191

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This grand collection of Mark Twain's short stories contains his famous humorous tales, children's stories, satires, and other sketches written in his recognizable witty style: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco Answers to Correspondents Among the Fenians The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief Curing a Cold An Inquiry about Insurances Literature in the Dry Diggings 'After' Jenkins Lucretia Smith's Soldier The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized' An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand Among the Spirits Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood A Page from a Californian Almanac Information for the Million The Launch of the Steamer Capital Origin of Illustrious Men Advice for Good Little Girls Concerning Chambermaids Remarkable Instances of Presence of Mind Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu The Steed 'Oahu' A Strange Dream Short and Singular Rations Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance Burlesque Autobiography Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance Merry Tales The Private History of a Campaign That Failed The Invalid's Story Luck The Captain's Story A Curious Experience Mrs. Mc Williams and the Lightning Meisterschaft The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories The Million Pound Bank Note Mental Telegraphy The Enemy Conquered About all Kinds of Ships Playing Courier The German Chicago A Petition to the Queen of England A Majestic Literary Fossil Sketches New and Old The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories Mark Twain's Library of Humor Other Stories Biography Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.


Annotated Huckleberry Finn

Annotated Huckleberry Finn

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 9780393020397

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"All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography.