Punch, Brothers, Punch: The Comic Mark Twain Reader

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Taylor Trade Publications, 2004 - 489 páginas
Collects works, including perennial favorites and lesser known writings, that reveal and together celebrate Twain's genius as a humorist. Selections from The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, and many others.

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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1
Journalism in Tennessee
7
The Facts in the Great Beef Contract
13
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
20
Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
26
The Invalids Story
33
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
40
Playing Courier
47
A Practical Joke
205
Jim Bakers Bluejay Yarn
209
The Great French Duel
214
Cholley Adams
223
The Laborious Ant
227
Nicodemus Dodge
231
An American Party
235
American in Europe
244

The Fourth of July
61
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
64
Woman God Bless Her
69
Glove Purchase in Gibraltar
72
Parisian Shave
75
Billfinger
77
GuideEnglish
82
Shortage of Soap
85
A Sort of People
88
A Skinning
90
An Ancient Playbill
95
Guying the Guides
101
Turkish Bath
107
That Girl in Yalta
111
Jericho
113
A Party of Eight
115
King Solomoninallhisglory
117
A Fearless Man
120
The Benton House
125
The Great Pyramid of Cheops
128
Cookery Complaints
133
A Newspaper Valedictory
134
The Cayote
140
When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree
143
A Hundred and Ten Tin Whistles
148
A Genuine Mexican Plug
153
Mr Arkansas
158
The Great Landslide Case
162
Buck Fanshaws Funeral
167
The Story of the Old Ram
175
Fetch Her Out
180
Tom Quartz
182
Blanketing the Admiral
185
The Greeley Correspondence with Erickson
193
Markiss King of Liars
200
Ascending the Riffelberg
252
The Awful German Language
277
Keelboat Talk and Manners
295
An Incognito Exploded
307
The House Beautiful
312
Manufactures
317
The Art of Inhumation
320
Pap His Own Self
324
The Duke and the Dauphin
335
Curing a Cold
340
Aurelias Unfortunate Young Man
344
The Facts in the Case of the Senate Doorkeeper
347
Female Suffrage
352
The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
365
My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
372
Private Habits of Horace Greeley
378
Last Words of Great Men
382
A Mystery Cleared Up
386
The Late Benjamin Franklin
388
The Reception at the Presidents
391
The Widows Protest
396
About Barbers
397
A Burlesque Biography
401
An Encounter with an Interviewer
407
The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras
412
Punch Brothers Punch
418
Remarkable Gold Mines
423
A Petition to the Queen of England
425
A Cure for the Blues
430
Traveling with a Reformer
447
Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses
461
My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
473
Amended Obituaries
481
Sources
485
Index of Titles
487

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