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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 Start on their Long Drift

The Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud

FROM “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT” (1886–7)

Meeting the Yankee

The Stranger’s History

The Round Table

The Yankee Reflects

Perfect Government

Maids in Distress

A Knight’s Average

Sixth Century Kingdoms

Nature

Conscience

The German Tongue

Government by the People

Prophecy

Hard Work

Still Hope

The Human Race

The King in Slavery

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

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