THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT
“Now that corpse,” said the undertaker,
patting the folded hands of deceased approvingly,
was a brick-every way you took him he was a brick.
He was so rea...
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DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY
In San Francisco, the other day, “A well-dressed
boy, on his way to Sunday-school, was arrested and
thrown into the city prison for stoning Chinamen.”
What...
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 2.
Answers to correspondents—­[Written
about 1865.]
“Moral statistician.”—­I
don’t want any of your statistics; I took you...
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 5.
The Siamese Twins—­[Written
about 1868.]
I do not wish to write of the personal habits of these
strange creatures solely, but also of certain curio...
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 1.
CONTENTS (Entire ebook)
Preface
My Watch
Political Economy
The Jumping Frog
Journalism In Tenness...
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PREFACE
I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter
which has never been in print before (such as “Learned
Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls,” the “Jumping
Frog restored t...
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 7.
First interview with Artemus Ward—­[Written
about 1870.]
I had never seen him before. He brought letters
of introduction from mutual friends...
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 4.
The late Benjamin Franklin—­[Written
about 1870.]
["Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day
after to-morrow just as well.”—&sh...
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, oft...
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Biography EssayIn the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Miss...
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At the end of a long and prolific career with the pen, America's favorite humorist grew reflective about his craft, yet kept his tongue firmly planted in his cheek: "I have always been able to gain my...
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In the early spring of 1835, John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave, in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was ...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to America and the world as Mark Twain, is one of the most loved and read men of American letters. Especially noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) a...
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When one considers Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life and writings, the role of literary critic is hardly the first category that comes to mind. Yet in the course of his career he compiled a large body ...
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An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distin...
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Mark Twain is the best-known and most-beloved American writer in the world, and his stature as the quintessential American writer rests in large part upon his "westernness." Born at the edge of the fr...
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For the readers of the late nineteenth century Samuel Clemens was first and foremost a travel writer, not a novelist. He earned his greatest respect and patronage from his contemporaries not for being...
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Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had kn...
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Sketches New and Old, Part 6.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens