Title: The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
Description: Curing a cold -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- Information for the million -- The killing of Julius Caesar "localized" -- Lucretia Smith's soldier -- A touching story of George Washington's boyhood -- Advice to little girls -- "After" Jenkins -- Answers to correspondents -- Mr. Bloke's item -- A page from a Californian almanac -- The scriptural panoramist -- Among the spirits -- Brief biographical sketch of George Washington -- A complaint about correspondents -- Concerning chambermaids -- Honored as a curiosity -- An inquiry about insurances -- Literature in the dry diggings -- Origin of illustrious men -- The facts concerning the recent resignation -- General Washington's Negro body-servant -- Information wanted -- My late senatorial secretaryship -- An ancient playbill - Back from "Yurrup" -- The Benton House -- A fine old man -- Guying the guides -- Mental photographs -- Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's farm -- The Turkish bath -- The case of George Fisher -- An entertaining article	
History repeats itself -- John Chinaman in New York -- The judge's "spirited woman" -- The late Benjamin Franklin -- Map of Paris -- My bloody massacre -- A mysterious visit -- Note on "The petrified man" -- Post-mortem poetry -- Riley - newspaper correspondent -- Running for governor -- To raise poultry -- The undertaker's chat -- The widow's protest -- Wit inspirations of the "two-year-olds" -- About barbers -- A burlesque biography -- The danger of lying in bed -- A fashion item -- First interview with Artemus Ward -- My first literary venture -- A new Beecher church -- Portrait of King William III -- "Blanketing" the Admiral -- A deception -- A genuine Mexican plug -- The great landslide case -- How the author was sold in Newark -- A hundred and ten tin whistles -- Lionizing murderers -- Markiss, king of liars -- Mr. Arkansas -- Nevada nabobs -- What Hank said to Horace Greeley -- When the buffalo climbed a tree -- A curious pleasure excursion -- Rogers -- After-dinner speech	
A couple of poems by Twain and Moore -- An encounter with an interviewer -- Johnny Green -- The jumping frog -- The office bore -- "Party cries" in Ireland -- Petition concerning copyright -- The Siamese twins -- Speech at the Scottish banquet in London -- Speech on accident insurance -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Letter read at a dinner -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Some rambling notes of an idle excursion -- Speech on the weather -- The Whittier birthday speech -- About magnanimous-incident literature -- O'Shah -- The great revolution in Pitcairn -- Speech on the babies -- American in Europe -- An American party -- Ascending the Riffelberg -- The awful German language -- The great French duel -- The king's encore -- The laborious ant -- My long crawl in the dark -- Nicodemus Dodge -- Skeleton for the Black Forest novel -- A telephonic conversation -- Two works of art -- Why Germans wear spectacles -- Young Cholley Adams -- Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims	
Concerning the American language -- Legend of Sagenfeld in Germany -- On the decay of the art of lying -- Paris notes -- The art of inhumation -- Keelboat talk and manners -- Introduction to "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English" -- A petition to the Queen of England -- A majestic literary fossil -- About all kinds of ships -- A cure for the blues -- The enemy conquered; or, Love triumphant -- Traveling with a reformer -- Private history of the "Jumping frog" story -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- A hell of a hotel at Maryborough -- The Indian crow -- At the appetite cure -- The Austrian Edison keeping school again -- From the "London Times" of 1904 -- My first lie and how I got out of it -- My boybood dreams -- Amended obituraries -- Does the race of man love a lord? -- Instructions in art -- Italian with grammer -- Italian without a master -- The petrified man -- The Dutch Nick massacre
Subjects: American Humorous stories, Social life and customs, United States in fiction, Comedy sketches, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Anxiety, Existentialism, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
Places: United States