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Mark Twain. Moments with Mark Twain
Moments with Mark Twain
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
FROM “SKETCHES NEW AND OLD” (1865–67)
Answers to Correspondents
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
FROM “THE INNOCENTS ABROAD” (1867–68)
On Keeping a Journal
The “Quaker City” in a Storm
The Beautiful Stranger
Tangier
American Beauties
An Early Memory
At the Ambrosian Library
Our Need of Repose
Venice
At Pisa
Christian Persuasion
Taking It Out of the Guides
A Surfeit of Art
At Pompeii
Fame
Athens from the Acropolis
Constantinople
Turkish Journalism
The Camel
At Noah’s Tomb
Damascus
At Banias
A Healer in Palestine
The Bible
Galilee at Night
Distance in the East
A Pleasant Incident
Sacred Marvels
At Adam’s Grave
The Wandering Jew
Bedouins
A Smitten Land
The Sphinx
Memories of the Pilgrimage
FROM “ROUGHING IT”
Starting West (1870–71)
George Bemis and “The Allen”
The Overland Stage
Morning on the Plains
The Cayote
The Pony Rider
Indian Country
At the Summit of the Rockies
Incidents by the Way
Mormon Beauties
The Alkali Desert
Arrival in Carson City
Lake Tahoe
Selling Out a Mine
Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral
An Abandoned Town
A Hawaiian Temple
A Hawaiian Statesman
Hawaiian Religion
The Crater of Haleakala
FROM “THE GILDED AGE” (1873)
Colonel Seller’s Great Idea
Colonel Sellers Lets Himself Out
FROM “ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER” (1874–5)
A Speculation in Whitewash
Tom Falls in Love
Huck
The Pirates’ Island
Tom Learns to Smoke
FROM “THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT” (1878)
Describing an Elephant
FROM “A TRAMP ABROAD” (1878–9)
Wagner
Midnight Entertainment
Foreign Quotations
Reflections on the Ant
Foreign Quotations Again
The Jungfrau
Climbing the Gemmi Pass
Descent of Gemmi Pass
Alp Climbing
The Old Masters
FROM “LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI” (1874–5)
The Permanent Ambition
First Lessons in Piloting
Perplexing Lessons
A Test of Courage
FROM “THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER” (1877–80)
Births of High and Low Degree
The Canty Home
London Bridge
Tom Canty, King
The Little King in Prison
Tom Canty the First
Tom Is Recognized
FROM “THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN” (1876–83)
Huck and Nigger Jim[3] Start on their Long Drift
The Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud[4]
FROM “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT” (1886–7)
Meeting the Yankee
The Stranger’s History
The Round Table[7]
The Yankee Reflects
Perfect Government
Maids in Distress
A Knight’s Average
Sixth Century Kingdoms
Nature
Conscience
The German Tongue[8]
Government by the People
Prophecy
Hard Work
Still Hope
The Human Race
The King in Slavery[9]
FROM “RAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSION” (1877)
What We Saw in Bermuda
FROM “PUDD’NHEAD WILSON’S CALENDAR” (1892–3)
FROM “THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED” (1885)
The Marion Rangers
FROM “THE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC”
Joan
The Fairy Tree
L’Arbre Fée de Bourlemont
Joan Before Rheims
Joan’s Reward
FROM “SAINT JOAN OF ARC” (1899)
FROM “FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR” Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar (1896–7)
Art
Italian Cigars
FROM “CONCERNING THE JEWS” (1898)
The Human Being
The Immortal Race
FROM “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” (1898)
The C. S. Healer
FROM “ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER” (1903)
The Home Product
The Charm of Uncertainty
FROM “EVE’S DIARY” (1905)
Her Chief Desire
At Eve’s Grave
William Dean Howells (1905)
MISCELLANEOUS (1905–9)
Making the Oyster
The Fatality of Sequence
Life’s Turning Point
Close of Seventieth Birthday Speech
The Future Life
Religion
FROM “THE DEATH OF JEAN” (1909)
FROM “ONE OF HIS LATEST MEMORANDA” (1909)
The Impartial Friend
