Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent
by Henry William Fischer
Biography & AutobiographyEssays & Short WorksHumorPolitical ScienceSocial Science (Culture & Anthropology)Travel & GeographyWriting & LinguisticsModern (19th C)
About this book
This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow humorist Eugene Field experienced a wide variety of people, places and things together and author Henry Fischer brings them together here, for the first time. - Summary by John Greenman
Chapters (96)
1Author’s Preface
2How Mark Would Safeguard England
3Mark Philosophized on Willie
4Mark - Regicide
5The Funniest Speech Mark Ever Gave
6Monarchical Atavism
7Democratic Mark and Austrian Aristocracy
8Phil Sheridan's Friend
9"Elizabeth was a He", said Mark
10Mark, the Sleight-of-hand Man
11Mark and the Imperial Mistress
12Mark on Lynch Law
13Recollections of King Charles and Grant
14Mark Missed Gallows-land
15Think of Her Sorrow
16Breaking the News Gently
17Dukes and Unborn Car Horses
18"Pa Used to Be a Terrible Man"
19Mark on the Berlin Cops
20The Sausage Room
21Mark's Glimpse of Schopenhauer
22"Murderer" Blücher in Oxford
23Mark's Human Side
24An Australian Surprise
25Mark in France and Italy
26Why Mark Wouldn't Like to Die Abroad
27The Left Hand Didn't Know
28American Humorists
29Telepathy or Suggestion
30Trying to Be Serious Didn't Work
31Assorted Beauties
32Mark's Children Knew Him
33Mark, Dogs, Dagoes, and Cats
34The Tragedy of Genius
35Kilties and the Lassie
36A Wise Provision of Providence
37The Awful German Language
38Artist or Photographer
39Mark Interviewed the Barber about Harry Thaw
40His Portrait—a Mirror
41Mark, Bismarck, Lincoln, and Darwin
42Mark at the Stock Exchange, Vienna
43Mark and the Prussian Lieutenant
44Mark Studies the Costermonger Language
45That Beautiful Funeral
46Ada's Beast of a Man
47Jealousy in Lowland
48The Troubles of Liz
49The French Madame
50The Great Disappointment
51Rheumatism and Prodding
52On Literary Friendships
53Bayard Taylor's German
54Genius in Extremis
55What May Happen to You after You Are Dead
56Kings in Their Birthday Suits
57Mark on Lincoln's Humanity
58An English Lover of Kings and a Hater
59Mark Got Arrested in Berlin
60Books that Weren't Written
61Mark Enjoyed Other Humorists
62Mark and the English Hack-writer
63Mark Thought Joan of Arc Was Slandered
64Running Amuck—Almost
65Mark's Idiomatic Gems
66Mark and the Girls that Love a Lord
67Mark's Martyrdom
68Slang Not in Mark's Dictionary
69Mark "No Gentleman"
70Mark, Poetry, and Art
71Mark Sheds Light on English History
72Mark Explains Dean Swift
73Mark in Tragedy and Comedy
74"Ambition Is a Jade that More Than One Man Can Ride"
75Mark as a Translator
76Mark in England
77Why Mark Was Uncomfortable in the King of Sweden's Presence
78Mark's Idea of High Art
79Mark Meets King Leopold—Almost
80Sizing Up of Aristocracy by Mark
81The Bald-headed Woman
82When a Publisher Dines and Wines You
83Mark in Politics
84Mark on "Royal Honors"
85American Women the Prettiest
86Where Tay Pay Isn't Tay Pay
87The Man Who Didn't Get Used to Hanging
88Stray Sayings of Mark
89Eugene Field and His Troubles in Chicago
90More of Eugene Field's Trials in London
91Gene, a "Success of Curiosity"
92Dire Consequences of American Horseplay
93Field's Library of Humor
94Those German Professors
95Eugene Field and Northern Lore
96Little Boy Blue
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