Moments With Mark Twain

by Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain

Published 1800 -1900 Essays & Short Works

19 chapters6h 53mEnglish1920

About this book

These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in "Tom Sawyer", events preceding the Mississippi River raft journey in "Huckleberry Finn", a dark moment during the exchange of identities in “The Prince and the Pauper”, and reflections of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”. A critic wrote of another excerpt concerning a feud, "...as dramatic and powerful an episode as I know in modern literature." Also included are comments about travel abroad, Joan of Arc, a generous helping of Twain’s renowned quips, and mortality. (Lee Smalley)

Chapters (19)

1Forward and Chapter 1 from “Sketches New and Old”

568

2Chapter 2 Part 1 from “The Innocents Abroad”

1070

3Chapter 2 Part 2 from "The Innocents Abroad"

1686

4Chapter 2 Part 3 from "The Innocents Abroad"

1783

5Chapter 3 Part 1 from "Roughing It"

1329

6Chapter 3 Part 2 from "Roughing It"

783

7Chapter 3 Part 3 from "Roughing It"

1594

8Chapter 4 from "The Gilded Age"

1003

9Chapter 5 from "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and Chapter 6 from "The Stolen White Elephant"

1427

10Chapter 7 Part 1 from "A Tramp Abroad"

1103

11Chapter 7 Part 2 from "A Tramp Abroad"

981

12Chapter 8 from "Life on the Mississippi"

2115

13Chapter 9 from "The Prince and the Pauper"

1466

14Chapter 10 from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

1871

15Chapter 11 from "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

1703

16Chapter 12 from "Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion", Chapter 13 from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar", and Chapter 14 from "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed"

1349

17Chapter 15 from "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" and Chapter 16 from "Saint Joan of Arc"

1023

18Chapter 17 from "Following the Equator", Chapter 18 from "Concerning the Jews", and Chapter 19 from "Christian Science"

1072

19Chapter 20 from "Italian Without a Master", Chapter 21 from "Eve's Diary", Chapter 22 from "Miscellaneous", Chapter 23 from "The Death of Jean", and Chapter 24 from "One of His Latest Memoranda"

884

Moments With Mark Twain

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