Sketches New and Old

Sketches New and Old

By Mark Twain
Michael Caine
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Length10h 33m

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." "Sketches New and Old" is a group of fictional stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1MY WATCH
2POLITICAL ECONOMY
3THE JUMPING FROG
4IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL.
5THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY [Pronounced Cal-e-va-ras]
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6THE JUMPING FROG
7JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE
8SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
9SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
10THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY
11THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY
12A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE
13THOSE EVENING BELLS
14THOSE ANNUAL BILLS
15NIAGARA
16ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
17TO RAISE POULTRY
18EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP
19MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE
20HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK
21THE OFFICE BORE
22JOHNNY GREER
23THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT: THE UNITED STATES
24THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER: The United States in account with the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased.
25DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY
26THE JUDGE'S "SPIRITED WOMAN"
27INFORMATION WANTED
28SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS IN THREE PARTS
29PART FIRST HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD SENT OUT A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION
30SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS PART SECOND HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD COMPLETED THEIR SCIENTIFIC LABORS
31SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS
32PART THIRD
33MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP
34A FASHION ITEM
35RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
36A FINE OLD MAN
37SCIENCE V.S. LUCK
38THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
39MR. BLOKE'S ITEM
40A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868]
41CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.
42CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS
43CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS
44CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION
45CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE
46PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT: A PARAGRAPH NOT ADDED TO THE PETITION
47AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
48LIONIZING MURDERERS
49A NEW CRIME
50A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.]: 'GONE TO HIS JUST REWARD'

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