Sketches New and Old

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Humorous Fiction, Short Stories

Authors: Mark Twain In Year : 1875

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Sketches New and Old

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

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. 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)