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Tables of Contents for Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Suggestions for Further Reading
xxxi
A Note on the Texts
xxxiii
Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
Letter from Carson City (1863)
3
5
Washoe.---``Information Wanted'' (1864)
8
5
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)
13
7
The Christmas Fireside: The Story of the Bad Little Boy That Bore a Charmed Life (1865)
20
4
Barnum's First Speech in Congress (1867)
24
4
Cannibalism in the Cars (1868)
28
9
An Awful---Terrible Medieval Romance (1870)
37
8
The Tomb of Adam from the Innocents Abroad (1869)
45
3
Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper (1870)
48
5
Map of Paris (1870)
53
6
Buck Fanshawe's Funeral from Roughing It (1872)
59
9
The Story of the Old Ram from Roughing It (1872)
68
5
Life as I Find It (1873)
73
2
Sociable Jimmy (1874)
75
5
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874)
80
5
An Encounter with an Interviewer (1874)
85
25
from Old Times on the Mississippi (1875)
The Boys' Ambition
90
4
I Want to Be a Cub-Pilot
94
4
Perplexing Lessons
98
6
Continued Perplexities
104
6
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (1876)
110
17
[Date, 1601] Conversation, as It Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (1876)
127
7
Whittier Birthday Speech (1877)
134
6
A Presidential Candidate (1879)
140
2
The Babies. As They Comfort Us in Our Sorrows, Let Us Not Forget Them in Our Festivities (1879)
142
3
A Cat Tale (ca. 1880)
145
11
Jim Baker's Blue Jay Yarn from A Tramp Abroad (1880)
156
7
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885)
163
21
Private History of the ``Jumping Frog'' Story (1894)
184
11
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar from Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
195
5
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar from Following the Equator (1897)
200
6
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1899)
206
50
My First Lie and How I Got Out of It (1899)
256
8
To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
264
18
Corn-Pone Opinions (1901)
282
6
A Dog's Tale (1903)
288
11
Eve Speaks (ca. 1905)
299
3
Seventieth Birthday Speech (1905)
302
6
Early Days (1907)
308
15
Little Bessie (ca. 1908-09)
323
11
``The Turning Point of My Life'' (1910)
334
10
The Death of Jean (1911)
344
15
On Writing and Writers
Reply to the Editor of ``The Art of Authorship'' (1890)
359
2
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us (1895)
361
16
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (1895)
377
14
How to Tell a Story (1895)
391
6
William Dean Howells (1906)
397
10
My Literary Shipyard (1922)
407