The Complete Essays and Satires of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain. The Complete Essays and Satires of Mark Twain
The Complete Essays and Satires of Mark Twain
Table of Contents
HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHER ESSAYS
HOW TO TELL A STORY
THE WOUNDED SOLDIER
THE GOLDEN ARM
MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN
THE INVALID’S STORY
A SALUTATION SPEECH FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTIETH
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, UPDATED
TO THE PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS
PRIVATE HISTORY OF THE “JUMPING FROG” STORY
FENIMORE COOPER’S LITERARY OFFENCES
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR
STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA
CONCERNING THE JEWS
COMMENTS ON THE MORO MASSACRE
CARL SCHURZ, PILOT
TAMING THE BICYCLE
I
II
TO MY MISSIONARY CRITICS
KING LEOPOLD’S SOLILOQUY
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE CONGO STATE
IN DEFENSE OF HARRIET SHELLEY
I
II
III
ESSAYS ON PAUL BOURGET
WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US
A LITTLE NOTE TO M. PAUL BOURGET
WHAT IS MAN?
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Conclusion
THE DEATH OF JEAN
THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE
I
II
III
HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK
THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION
A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY
SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY
AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT
ON GIRLS
A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET
AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY
I
II
CONCERNING TOBACCO
THE BEE
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
Chapter XIII of THE SHAKESPEARE PROBLEM RESTATED bears the heading
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
THE UNITED STATES OF LYNCHERDOM
I
II
LETTERS FROM THE EARTH
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Mark Twain
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“I am willing to be a literary thief if it has been so ordained; I am even willing to be caught robbing the ancient dead alongside of Hopkinson Smith, for he is my friend and a good fellow, and I think would be as honest as any one if he could do it without occasioning remark; but I am not willing to ante date his crimes by fifteen hundred years. I must ask you to knock off part of that.”
But the professor was not chaffing; he was in earnest, and could not abate a century. He named the Greek author, and offered to get the book and send it to me and the college text-book containing the English translation also. I thought I would like the translation best, because Greek makes me tired. January 30th he sent me the English version, and I will presently insert it in this article. It is my Jumping Frog tale in every essential. It is not strung out as I have strung it out, but it is all there.
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