| Description |
2 volumes ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
v.1. The weather in this book -- Opening remarks, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- "After" Jenkins -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The innocents abroad -- The undertaker's chat -- The danger of lying in bed -- Lionizing murderers -- A true story repeated word for word as I heard it -- An encounter with an interviewer -- About barbers -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- The journals of Germany -- The prince and the pauper -- On the decay of the art of lying -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court -- The private history of a campaign that failed -- The 41,000,000 bank note -- Playing courier -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- v. 2. A burlesque biography -- The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- The comedy those extraordinary twins -- The awful German language -- Life on the Mississippi -- A medieval romance -- Extracts from Adam's diary -- Eve's diary -- Roughing it -- How to tell a story -- A curious dream -- My late senatorial secretaryship -- A mysterious visit -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A visit to Niagara -- The experiences of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning -- The stolen white elephant -- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany -- Some rambling notes of an idle excursion -- Travelling with a reformer -- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- The $30,000 bequest -- Curing a cold -- Disgraceful persecution of a boy -- The canvasser's tale -- At the appetite-cure -- Petition to congress. |
| Subject |
American literature.
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| Added Author |
Teacher, Lawrence.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1976
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| ISBN |
0914294539 v. 1 library binding |
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9780914294535 v. 1 library binding |
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0914294547 v. 1 paperback |
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9780914294542 v. 1 paperback |
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0894710869 v. 2 paperback |
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9780894710865 v. 2 paperback |
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0894710877 v. 2 library binding |
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9780894710872 v. 2 library binding |
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