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Sketches New and Old

Sketches New and Old

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Number of Chapters: 64

Length: 10 hours and 33 minutes

Language: English

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1882. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into English, showing how the French translation of his work was "badly flawed." In many of these sketches, Twain shows his talent for outrageous and hilarious inventiveness, often in reaction to current events. (Summary by John Greenman)

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01 Chapter 1 Preface & My Watch (John Greenman)
Chapter 2 Political Economy (John Greenman)
Chapter 3 The Jumping Frog (John Greenman)
Chapter 4 Journalism In Tennessee (John Greenman)
Chapter 5 The Story of the Bad Little Boy (John Greenman)
Chapter 6 The Story of the Good Little Boy (John Greenman)
Chapter 7 A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore (John Greenman)
Chapter 8 Niagra (John Greenman)
Chapter 9 Answers to Correspondents (John Greenman)
Chapter 10 To Raise Poultry (John Greenman)
Chapter 11 Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup (John Greenman)
Chapter 12 My First Literary Venture (John Greenman)
Chapter 13 How the Author was Sold in Newark (John Greenman)
Chapter 14 The Office Bore (John Greenman)
Chapter 15 Johnny Greer (John Greenman)
Chapter 16 The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract (John Greenman)
Chapter 17 The Case of George Fisher (John Greenman)
Chapter 18 Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy (John Greenman)
Chapter 19 The Judge's "Spirited Woman" (John Greenman)
Chapter 20 Information Wanted (John Greenman)
Chapter 21 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part First (John Greenman)
Chapter 22 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part Second (John Greenman)
Chapter 23 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part Third (John Greenman)
Chapter 22 My Late Senatorial Secretaryship (John Greenman)
Chapter 25 A Fashion Item (John Greenman)
Chapter 26 Riley-Newspaper Correspondent (John Greenman)
Chapter 27 A Fine Old Man (John Greenman)
Chapter 28 Science vs. Luck (John Greenman)
Chapter 29 The Late Benjamin Franklin (John Greenman)
Chapter 30 Mr. Bloke's Item (John Greenman)
Chapter 31 A Medieval Romance (John Greenman)
Chapter 32 Petition Concerning Copyright (John Greenman)
Chapter 33 After-Dinner Speech (John Greenman)
Chapter 34 Lionizing Murderers (John Greenman)
Chapter 35 A New Crime (John Greenman)
Chapter 36 A Curious Dream (John Greenman)
Chapter 37 A True Story (John Greenman)
Chapter 38 The Siamese Twins (John Greenman)
Chapter 39 Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London (John Greenman)
Chapter 40 A Ghost Story (John Greenman)
Chapter 41 The Capitoline Venus (John Greenman)
Chapter 42 Speech on Accident Insurance (John Greenman)
Chapter 43 John Chinaman in New York (John Greenman)
Chapter 44 How I Edited an Agricultural Paper (John Greenman)
Chapter 45 The Petrified man (John Greenman)
Chapter 46 My Bloody Masacre (John Greenman)
Chapter 47 The Undertaker's Chat (John Greenman)
Chapter 48 Concerning Chambermaids (John Greenman)
Chapter 49 Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man (John Greenman)
Chapter 50 "After" Jenkins (John Greenman)
About Barbers (John Greenman)
"Party Cries" in Ireland (John Greenman)
The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation (John Greenman)
History Repeats Itself (John Greenman)
Honored as a Curiousity (John Greenman)
First Interview With Artemus Ward (John Greenman)
Cannibalism In The Cars (John Greenman)
The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized" (John Greenman)
The Widow's Protest (John Greenman)
The Scriptural Panoramist (John Greenman)
Curing a Cold (John Greenman)
A Curious Pleasure Excursion (John Greenman)
Running for Governor (John Greenman)
A Mysterious Visit (John Greenman)
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