Essays and sketches of Mark Twain
By: selected and with an introduction by Stuart Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Stuart, 1937-
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Humorous stories, American; Comedy sketches
Table of contents: title: My first lie, and how I got out of it --; title: The turning-point of my life --; title: My first literary venture --; title: My début as a literary person --; title: Niagara --; title: Science vs. luck --; title: The late Benjamin Franklin --; title: The petrified man --; title: George Washington's Negro body-servant --; title: Lionizing murderers --; title: A new crime --; title: About barbers --; title: Running for governor --; title: A mysterious visit --; title: Curing a cold --; title: The bee --; title: A majestic literary fossil --; title: At the appetite cure --; title: My watch --; title: Mental telegraphy --; title: Mental telegraphy again --; title: Concerning tobacco --; title: Does the race of man love a Lord? A telephonic conversation --; title: Wit inspirations of the "Two-Year-Olds" --; title: Concerning the Jews --; title: Extracts from Adam's diary --; title: Eve's diary --; title: Taming the bicycle --; title: How to make history dates stick --; title: English as she is taught --; title: Italian without a master --; title: Italian with grammar --; title: The awful German language --; title: Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses --; title: William Dean Howells --; title: Is Shakespeare dead? --; title: A helpless situation --; title: The first writing-machines --; title: A cure for the blues --; title: A petition to the Queen of England --; title: Concerning chambermaids --; title: The portier --; title: Heidelberg castle --; title: The college prison --; title: The German Chicago --; title: At the shrine of St. Wagner --; title: About all kinds of ships --; title: The danger of lying in bed --; title: My boyhood dreams --; title: A burlesque biography --; title: The death of Jean.