Sketches New and Old
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- 1875
- Pages
- 371
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01 Chapter 1 Preface & My Watch
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Chapter 2 Political Economy
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Chapter 3 The Jumping Frog
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Chapter 4 Journalism In Tennessee
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Chapter 5 The Story of the Bad Little Boy
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Chapter 6 The Story of the Good Little Boy
10:37 -
Chapter 7 A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
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Chapter 8 Niagra
16:08 -
Chapter 9 Answers to Correspondents
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Chapter 10 To Raise Poultry
6:17 -
Chapter 11 Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
14:24 -
Chapter 12 My First Literary Venture
5:29 -
Chapter 13 How the Author was Sold in Newark
3:45 -
Chapter 14 The Office Bore
4:57 -
Chapter 15 Johnny Greer
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Chapter 16 The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
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Chapter 17 The Case of George Fisher
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Chapter 18 Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
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Chapter 19 The Judge's "Spirited Woman"
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Chapter 20 Information Wanted
4:44 -
Chapter 21 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part First
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Chapter 22 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part Second
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Chapter 23 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part Third
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Chapter 22 My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
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Chapter 25 A Fashion Item
2:00 -
Chapter 26 Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
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Chapter 27 A Fine Old Man
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Chapter 28 Science vs. Luck
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Chapter 29 The Late Benjamin Franklin
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Chapter 30 Mr. Bloke's Item
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Chapter 31 A Medieval Romance
18:16 -
Chapter 32 Petition Concerning Copyright
2:11 -
Chapter 33 After-Dinner Speech
6:11 -
Chapter 34 Lionizing Murderers
10:42 -
Chapter 35 A New Crime
10:22 -
Chapter 36 A Curious Dream
23:15 -
Chapter 37 A True Story
12:14 -
Chapter 38 The Siamese Twins
9:32 -
Chapter 39 Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London
8:01 -
Chapter 40 A Ghost Story
15:50 -
Chapter 41 The Capitoline Venus
12:17 -
Chapter 42 Speech on Accident Insurance
4:00 -
Chapter 43 John Chinaman in New York
3:40 -
Chapter 44 How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
13:21 -
Chapter 45 The Petrified man
7:10 -
Chapter 46 My Bloody Masacre
6:44 -
Chapter 47 The Undertaker's Chat
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Chapter 48 Concerning Chambermaids
4:50 -
Chapter 49 Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
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Chapter 50 "After" Jenkins
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About Barbers
9:21 -
"Party Cries" in Ireland
2:39 -
The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
15:59 -
History Repeats Itself
2:41 -
Honored as a Curiousity
3:02 -
First Interview With Artemus Ward
7:55 -
Cannibalism In The Cars
21:26 -
The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
11:45 -
The Widow's Protest
2:17 -
The Scriptural Panoramist
6:03 -
Curing a Cold
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A Curious Pleasure Excursion
10:49 -
Running for Governor
12:02 -
A Mysterious Visit
11:52
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Gathered by Twain himself in 1875, this collection ranges across the humorous sketches, tall tales, and comic essays that first made his name. It opens with the story that launched his career, the jumping frog of Calaveras County, and moves through spoofs, ghost stories, mock morality tales, and satirical jabs at politicians, journalists, and his own younger self. The pieces are uneven by design, some slight, some sharp, but all carry the drawling voice and deadpan timing that readers loved. Taken together they show the young Mark Twain testing the comic instrument he would later turn to greater ends.
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Book facts
- Author
- Mark Twain
- First published
- 1875
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 371
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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