Mark Twain: The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Mark Twain

190+ Humorous Tales & Sketches

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2017 OK Publishing

ISBN 978-80-272-3046-4

Novelettes Novelettes Table of Contents

A Double Barrelled Detective Story A Double Barrelled Detective Story Table of Contents

Those Extraordinary Twins Those Extraordinary Twins Table of Contents

The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

The Stolen White Elephant

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven

Short Story Collections

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man

A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco

Answers to Correspondents

Among the Fenians

The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief

Curing a Cold

An Inquiry about Insurances

Literature in the Dry Diggings

'After' Jenkins

Lucretia Smith's Soldier

The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized'

An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand

Among the Spirits

Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington

A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood

A Page from a Californian Almanac

Information for the Million

The Launch of the Steamer Capital

Origin of Illustrious Men

Advice for Good Little Girls

Concerning Chambermaids

Remarkable Instances of Presence of Mind

Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu

The Steed 'Oahu'

A Strange Dream

Short and Singular Rations

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

Burlesque Autobiography

Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance

Sketches New and Old

My Watch

Political Economy

The Jumping Frog

Journalism in Tennessee

The Story of the Bad Little Boy

The Story of the Good Little Boy

A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore

Niagara

Answers to Correspondents

To Raise Poultry

Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup

My First Literary Venture

How the Author Was Sold in Newark

The Office Bore

Johnny Greer

The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract

The Case of George Fisher

Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy

The Judges 'Spirited Woman'

Information Wanted

Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girls

My Late Senatorial Secretaryship

A Fashion Item

Riley-Newspaper Correspondent

A Fine Old Man

Science vs. Luck

The Late Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Bloke's Item

A Medieval Romance

Petition Concerning Copyright

After-Dinner Speech

Lionizing Murderers

A New Crime

A Curious Dream

A True Story

The Siamese Twins

Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London

A Ghost Story

The Capitoline Venus

Speech on Accident Insurance

John Chinaman in New York

How I Edited an Agricultural Paper

The Petrified Man

My Bloody Massacre

The Undertaker's Chat

Concerning Chambermaids

Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man

'After' Jenkins

About Barbers

'Party Cries' in Ireland

The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation

History Repeats Itself

Honored as a Curiosity

First Interview with Artemus Ward

Cannibalism in the Cars

The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized'

The Widow's Protest

The Scriptural Panoramist

Curing a Cold

A Curious Pleasure Excursion

Running for Governor

A Mysterious Visit

Merry Tales

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

The Invalid's Story

Luck

The Captain's Story

A Curious Experience

Mrs. Mc Williams and the Lightning

Meisterschaft

The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories

The Million Pound Bank Note

Mental Telegraphy

The Enemy Conquered

About all Kinds of Ships

Playing Courier

The German Chicago

A Petition to the Queen of England

A Majestic Literary Fossil

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

The $30,000 Bequest

A Dog's Tale

Was It Heaven? Or Hell?

A Cure for the Blues

The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant

The Californian's Tale

A Helpless Situation

A Telephonic Conversation

Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale

The Five Boons of Life

The First Writing Machines

Italian Without a Master

Italian With Grammar

A Burlesque Biography

How To Tell A Story

General Washington's Negro Body-Servant

Wit Inspirations of the "Two Year-Olds"

An Entertaining Article

A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury

Amended Obituaries

A Monument to Adam

A Humane Word from Satan

Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"

Advice to Little Girls

Post-Mortem Poetry

The Danger of Lying in Bed

Portrait of King William III

Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?

Extracts from Adam's Diary

Eve's Diary

The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

The Curious Republic of Gondour

A Memory

Introductory to "Memoranda"

About Smells

A Couple of Sad Experiences

Dan Murphy

The "Tournament" in A. D. 1870

Curious Relic for Sale

A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements

A Royal Compliment

The Approaching Epidemic

The Tone-Imparting Committee

Our Precious Lunatic

The European Wars

The Wild Man Interviewed

Last Words of Great Men

Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories

The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

About Magnanimous-Incident Literature

Punch, Brothers, Punch

The Great Revolution in Pitcairn

The Canvasser's Tale

An Encounter with an Interviewer

Paris Notes

Legend of Sagnfeld, In Germany

Speech on the Babies

Speech on the Weather

Concerning the American Language

Rogers

Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

The Tomb of Adam

Abelard and Heloise

A Genuine Mexican Plug

A Day's Work

Dick Baker's Cat

A Restless Night

A Dose of Pain Killer

European Diet

Nevada Nabobs in New York

A Dog in Church

Blue-Jays

Our Italian Guide

Lost in the Snow

The Cayote

Col. Sellers at Home

Other Stories

Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again

Little Bessie

Little Nelly Tells a Story Out of Her Own Head

My Platonic Sweetheart

The War Prayer

A Fable

Hunting the Deceitful Turkey

The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm

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Biography

Mark Twain: A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine

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