Mark Twain: collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays : 1891-1910
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Library of America
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©1992
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English
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From the Book
v. 2 1891-1910
1891: Aix-les-Bains ; Playing Courier ; Mental Telegraphy
1892: The Cradle of Liberty
1893: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note ; About All Kinds of Ships ; Extracts from Adam's Diary ; Is He Living or Is He Dead? ; The Esquimau Maiden's Romance ; Travelling with a Reformer ; Concerning Tobacco
1894: Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story ; Macfarlane
1895: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us ; Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences ; Fenimore Cooper's Further Literary Offenses ; How to Tell a Story
1896: Man's Place in the Animal World
1897: In Memoriam ; Which Was the Dream?
1898: A Word of Encouragement for Our Blushing Exiles ; About Play-Acting ; From the "London Times" of 1904 ; My Platonic Sweetheart ; The Great Dark
1899: Diplomatic Pay and Clothes ; Concerning the Jews ; Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy ; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg ; My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
1900: My Boyhood Dreams ; Introducing Winston S. Churchill ; A Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth, Taken Down in Short-Hand by Mark Twain
1901: To the Person Sitting in Darkness ; Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date) ; As Regards Patriotism ; The United States of Lyncherdom ; Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany ; Two Little Tales ; Corn-Pone Opinions
1902: Does the Race of Man Love a Lord? ; The Five Boons of Life ; Was It Heaven? Or Hell? ; The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger
1903: Why Not Abolish It? ; Mark Twain, Able Yachtsman, on Why Lipton Failed to Lift the Cup ; A Dog's Tale ; "Was the World Made for Man?"
1904: Italian Without a Master ; Saint Joan of Arc ; The $30,000 Bequest
1905: Concerning Copyright ; Adam's Soliloquy ; The Czar's Soliloquy ; Dr. Loeb's Incredible Discovery ; The War Prayer ; A Humane Word from Satan ; Christian Citizenship ; King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule ; A Helpless Situation ; Overspeeding ; In the Animal's Court ; Eve's Diary ; Eve Speaks ; Seventieth Birthday Dinner Speech ; Old Age
1906: The Gorky Incident ; William Dean Howells ; What Is Man? ; Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
1907: Dinner Speech at Annapolis ; Our Guest ; The Day We Celebrate ; Little Nelly Tells a Story Out of Her Own Head ; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
1908: Little Bessie
1909: The New Planet ; A Fable ; Letters from the Earth
1910: "The Turning Point of My Life.
Appendix: More Maxims of Mark ; Chronology ; Note on the texts; Notes ; Index of Titles.
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9780940450738
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