Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
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Category : Comedy sketches
Languages : en
Pages :
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Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comedy sketches
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old
Author: Mark TwainSketches New and Old Complete - the Original Classic Edition
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Tebbo
ISBN: 9781743473566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Sketches new and old complete by Mark Twain - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: He said he would rather have died than interrupt me, but when he was employed to do a job, and that job was expected to be done in a clean, workmanlike manner, and when it was finished and fatigue urged him to seek the rest and recreation he stood so much in need of, and he was about to do it, but looked up and saw at a glance that all the calculations had been a little out, and if a thunder-storm were to come up, and that house, which he felt a personal interest in, stood there with nothing on earth to protect it but sixteen lightning-rods-'Let us have peace!' ...H'm, Reverend Le-well, there was a feller here, once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49-or maybe it was the spring of '50-I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume warn't finished when he first come to the c& but anyway, he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't he'd change sides. ...Parson Walker's wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn't going to save her; but one morning he come in, and Smiley up and asked him how she was, and he said she was considerable better-thank the Lord for his inf'nite mercy-and coming on so smart that with the blessing of Prov'dence she'd get well yet; and Smiley, before he thought, says, 'Well, I'll resk two-and-a-half she don't anyway.' ...And a dog might tackle him and bully-rag him, and bite him, and throw him over his shoulder two or three times, and Andrew Jackson-which was the name of the pup-Andrew Jackson would never let on but what he was satisfied, and hadn't expected nothing else-and the bets being doubled and doubled on the other side all the time, till the money was all up; and then all of a sudden he would grab that other dog jest by the j'int of his hind leg and freeze to it-not chaw, you understand, but only just grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw, and when the thing had gone along far enough, and the money was all up, and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt, he see in a minute how he'd been imposed on, and how the other dog had him in the door, so to speak, and he 'peared surprised, and then he looked sorter discouraged-like and didn't try no more to win the fight, and so he got shucked out bad.
Sketches New and Old Complete
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. "Preface" "My Watch" "Political Economy" "The Jumping Frog" "Journalism in Tennessee" "The Story of the Bad Little Boy" "The Story of the Good Little Boy" "A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore" "Niagara" "Answers to Correspondents" "To Raise Poultry" "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup" "My First Literary Venture" "How the Author Was Sold in Newark" "The Office Bore" "Johnny Greer" "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract" "The Case of George Fisher" "Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy" "The Judges 'Spirited Woman'" Continue with our book
Sketches, New and Old
Author: Mark TwainSketches Old and New (Fully Illustrated)
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: LCI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
-With 120 original Illustrations. -Table of contents to every chapters in the book. -Complete and formatted to improve your reading experience Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories by Mark Twain. It was published in CONTENTS 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. SKETCHES NEW AND OLD PREFACE. MY WATCH-AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE [Written about 1870.] POLITICAL ECONOMY THE JUMPING FROG [written about 1865] JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE [written about 1871] STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY [written about 1865] STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY [Written about 1865] TWO POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE [written about 1865] A VISIT TO NIAGARA [written about 1871] ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS [written about 1865] TO RAISE POULTRY Written about 1870.] THE EXPERIENCES OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE [written about 1865] HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK [written about 1869] THE OFFICE BORE [written about 1869] JOHNNY GREER THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT [written about 1867] THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER, DECEASED DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY THE JUDGE’S “SPIRITED WOMAN” INFORMATION WANTED SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS THE FACTS CONCERNING THE LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP [written about 1867] A FASHION ITEM [written about 1867] RILEY-NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT A FINE OLD MAN SCIENCE V.S. LUCK [written about 1867] THE KILLING OF JULIUS CæSAR “LOCALIZED » [Written about 1865.] THE WIDOW’S PROTEST AN ITEM WHICH THE EDITOR HIMSELF COULD NOT UNDERSTAND [written about 1865] A MEDIÆVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868] PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT AFTER-DINNER SPEECH LIONIZING MURDERERS A NEW CRIME A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.] A TRUE STORY WORD FOR WORD AS I HEARD IT-[Written about 1875] PERSONNAL HABITS OF THE SIAMESE TWINS [Written about 1868.] SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET AT LONDON [Written about 1872.] A GHOST STORY LEGEND OF THE CAPITOLINE VENUS SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK HOW I ONCE EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER [Written about 1870.] THE PETRIFIED MAN MY BLOODY MASSACRE THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN [Written about 1865.] “AFTER” JENKINS ABOUT BARBERS “PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about 1867] HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF HONORED AS A CURIOSITY THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [written about 1870] THE « BLIND LETTER » DEPARTMENT, LONDON P. O. FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD [Written about 1870.] CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS [Written about 1867.] THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST [Written about 1866.] CURING A COLD [Written about 1864] A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR [Written about 1870.] A MYSTERIOUS VISIT
Sketches New and Old
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Sketches
Author: Mark TwainSketches New and Old, Complete
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976584947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The most popular humor book for individuals who are going to overcome depression.
Sketches New and Old, Complete 2
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN: 9781702367332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others.