The unabridged Mark Twain
By: opening remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; edited by Lawrence Teacher.
Contributors: Teacher, Lawrence.; Vonnegut, Kurt, 1922-2007.
Publisher: Courage Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Other titles: Mark Twain
Work titles: Selections.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The weather in this book ; Opening remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; A short note from the editor ; "After" Jenkins ; The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; The innocents abroad ; The undertaker's chat ; The danger of lying in bed ; Lionizing murderers ; A true story repeated word for word as I heard it ; An encounter with an interviewer ; About barbers ; The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut ; The adventures of Tom Sawyer ; The journals of Germany ; The prince and the pauper ; On the decay of the art of lying ; The adventures of Huckleberry Finn ; A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court ; The private history of a campaign that failed ; The 41,000,000 bank note ; Playing courier ; Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg; title: v. 2. A burlesque biography; title: The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson; title: The comedy those extraordinary twins; title: The awful German language; title: Life on the Mississippi; title: A medieval romance; title: Extracts from Adam's diary; title: Eve's diary; title: Roughing it; title: How to tell a story; title: A curious dream; title: My late senatorial secretaryship; title: A mysterious visit; title: Journalism in Tennessee; title: A visit to Niagara; title: The experiences of the McWilliamses with membranous croup; title: Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning; title: The stolen white elephant; title: Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany; title: Some rambling notes of an idle excursion; title: Travelling with a reformer; title: The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton; title: The 30,000 bequest; title: Curing a cold; title: Disgraceful persecution of a boy; title: The canvasser's tale; title: At the appetite-cure; title: Petition to Congress.