001460377 000__ 03857cam\\2200397\i\4500 001460377 001__ 1460377 001460377 003__ OCoLC 001460377 005__ 20230414003300.0 001460377 008__ 761029s1977\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 001460377 010__ $$a76023785 001460377 020__ $$a038511334X 001460377 020__ $$a9780385113342 001460377 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm02597052 001460377 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dUV$$$dBAKER$$dNLGGC$$dBTCTA$$dOCLCG$$dYU6$$dYDXCP$$dGBVCP$$dOCLCO$$dW3W$$dOCLCF$$dOCLCQ$$dMWJ$$dVLR$$dOCLCQ$$dCSA$$dLNC$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCA$$dYT6$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCO$$dXFG$$dISE 001460377 043__ $$an-us--- 001460377 049__ $$aISEA 001460377 05000 $$aPS1302$$b.N37 001460377 08200 $$a818/.4/09 001460377 1001_ $$aTwain, Mark,$$d1835-1910. 001460377 24514 $$aThe comic Mark Twain reader :$$bthe most humorous selections from his stories, sketches, novels, travel books, and speeches /$$cedited with an introd. and notes by Charles Neider. 001460377 250__ $$a1st ed. 001460377 260__ $$aGarden City, N.Y. :$$bDoubleday,$$c1977. 001460377 300__ $$axxx, 489 pages ;$$c22 cm 001460377 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001460377 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 001460377 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 001460377 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 001460377 5050_ $$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. 001460377 520__ $$aA collection of the humorous works of Mark Twain, including stories, tall tales, lectures, speeches, and excerpts from "The Innocents Abroad," "Life on the Mississippi," and other long works. 001460377 650_0 $$aHumorous stories, American. 001460377 650_0 $$aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American. 001460377 650_1 $$aWit and humor. 001460377 650_6 $$aRécits humoristiques américains.$$0(CaQQLa)201-0144095 001460377 650_6 $$aDiscours américains.$$0(CaQQLa)201-0132559 001460377 650_7 $$aHumorous stories, American.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst00963821 001460377 650_7 $$aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01129325 001460377 655_4 $$aHumorous stories, American. 001460377 85200 $$bsc 001460377 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1460377$$pGLOBAL_SET 001460377 980__ $$aBOOK 001460377 980__ $$aBIB