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100 1 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910.
245 14 $aThe comic Mark Twain reader :$bthe most humorous selections from his stories, sketches, novels, travel books, and speeches /$cedited with an introd. and notes by Charles Neider.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aGarden City, N.Y. :$bDoubleday,$c1977.
300 $axxx, 489 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Journalism in Tennessee -- The facts in the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- The invalid's story -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- Playing courier -- The Fourth of July -- Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims -- Woman, God bless her! -- Glove purchases in Gibraltar -- Parisian shave -- Billfinger -- Guide-English -- Shortage of soap -- A sort of people -- A skinning -- An ancient playbill -- Guying the guides -- Turkish bath -- That girl in Yalta -- "Jericho" -- A party of eight -- King Solomon-in-all-his-glory -- A fearless man -- The Benton House -- The great pyramid of Cheops -- Cookery complaints -- A newspaper valedictory -- The cayote -- When the buffalo climbed a tree -- A hundred and ten tin whistles -- A genuine Mexican plug -- Mr. Arkansas -- The great landslide case -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- The story of the old ram -- Fetch her out! -- Tom Quartz -- "Blanketing" the animal -- The Greeley correspondence with Erickson -- Markiss, king of liars -- A practical joke -- Jim Baker's bluejay yarn -- The great French duel -- Cholley Adams -- The laborious ant -- Nicodemus Dodge -- An American party -- American in Europe -- Ascending the Riffelberg -- The awful German language -- Keelboat talk and manners -- An incognito exploded -- The house beautiful -- Manufactures -- The art of inhumation -- Pap, his own self -- The duke and the dauphin -- Curing a cold -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- The facts in the case of the Senate doorkeeper -- Female suffrage -- The facts concerning the recent resignation -- My late senatorial secretaryship -- Private habits of Horace Greeley -- Last words of great men -- A mystery cleared up -- The late Benjamin Franklin -- The reception at the president's -- The widow's protest -- About barbers -- A burlesque biography -- An encounter with an interviewer -- The frog jumping of the County of Calaveras -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Remarkable gold mines -- A petition to the queen of England -- A cure for the blues -- Traveling with a reformer -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- My first lie, and how I got out of it -- Amended obituaries -- Sources -- Index.
520 $aA collection of the humorous works of Mark Twain, including stories, tall tales, lectures, speeches, and excerpts from "The Innocents Abroad," "Life on the Mississippi," and other long works.
650 0 $aHumorous stories, American.
650 0 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American.
650 1 $aWit and humor.
650 7 $aHumorous stories, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00963821
650 7 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01129325
653 0 $aHumorous stories, American
653 0 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American
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