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Tables of Contents for Achilles and the Tortoise
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction The Essays: Form and Content
1
20
Part I. Three Polemical Essays
An Essay on the Comic
21
32
Mark Twain
An Essay on Laughter
53
31
Mark Twain
An Essay on Books and Reality
84
39
Sam Clemens
G. S. Weaver
Hank Morgan
Mark Twain
Part II. The River Trilogy
An Essay on Romantic Folly
123
21
Tom Sawyer
An Essay on the Dilemmas of Realism
144
36
Huckleberry Finn
An Essay on Triumphant Reality
180
35
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Part III. A Last, Speculative Essay
An Essay on the Metaphysics of Twinship
215
54
Mark Twain
Melville
Melville and Mark Twain
216
2
A Theory of Twinning
218
19
The Practices of Twinning
237
21
Conclusion: April Fools!
258
11
Selected Bibliography
269
10
Index
279