Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 : 1851-1864.
Title:
Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 : 1851-1864.
Author:
Twain, Mark.
ISBN:
9780520905757
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (814 pages)
Series:
The Works of Mark Twain ; v.15
The Works of Mark Twain
Contents:
CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY TALES & SKETCHES -- SECTION 1: HANNIBAL AND THE RIVER (1851-1861) -- 1. A Gallant Fireman -- 2. The Dandy Frightening the Squatter -- 3. Hannibal, Missouri -- 4. A Family Muss -- [The Dog Controversy] -- 5. "Local" Resolves to Commit Suicide -- 6. "Pictur'" Department -- 7. Historical Exhibition-A No. 1 Ruse -- 8. [Blab's Tour] -- 9. "Connubial Bliss" -- 10. The Heart's Lament -- [The "Katie of H--1" Controversy] -- 11. Love Concealed -- 12. [First Letter from Grumbler] -- 13. [First Letter from Rambler] -- 14. To Rambler -- 15. [Letter from Peter Pencilcase's Son, John Snooks] -- 16. [Second Letter from Rambler] -- 17. Separation -- 18. "Oh, She Has a Red Head!" -- 19. The Burial of Sir Abner Gilstrap, Editor of the Bloomington "Republican" -- 20. "Jul'us Caesar" -- 21. To Mollie -- 22. "Lines Suggested by a Reminiscence" -- 23. To Jennie -- 24. [River Intelligence] -- 25. [The Mysterious Murders in Risse] -- 26. [Pilot's Memoranda] -- 27. [Ghost Life on the Mississippi] -- SECTION 2: NEVADA TERRITORY (1862-1864) -- 28. Petrified Man -- [Two Descents into the Spanish Mine] -- 29. The Spanish Mine -- 30. The Spanish -- 31. The Pah-Utes -- 32. The Illustrious Departed -- 33. Our Stock Remarks -- 34. More Ghosts -- 35. New Year's Day -- 36. Unfortunate Thief -- 37. The Sanitary Ball -- 38. Due Notice -- 39. Territorial Sweets -- 40. Letter from Carson City -- 41. Letter from Carson -- 42. Letter from Carson -- 43. Silver Bars-How Assayed -- 44. Ye Sentimental Law Student -- 45. A Sunday in Carson -- 46. The Unreliable -- 47. Reportorial -- 48. Examination of Teachers -- 49. City Marshal Perry -- 50. [Champagne with the Board of Brokers] -- 51. Advice to the Unreliable on Church-Going -- 52. Horrible Affair -- 53. Letter from Mark Twain -- 54. "Mark Twain's" Letter.
55. "Mark Twain's" Letter -- 56. A Duel Prevented -- 57. [An Apology Repudiated] -- 58. Letter from Mark Twain -- 59. "Mark Twain's" Letter -- 60. Unfortunate Blunder -- 61. Bigler vs. Tahoe -- 62. Letter from Mark Twain -- 63. How to Cure a Cold -- 64. Mark Twain-More of Him -- 65. The Lick House Ball -- 66. A Bloody Massacre near Carson -- 67. Letter from Mark Twain -- 68. A Tide of Eloquence -- 69. Letter from Mark Twain -- 70. Winters' New House -- 71. An Excellent School -- 72. Those Blasted Children -- 73. Frightful Accident to Dan De Quille -- 74. [Dan Reassembled] -- 75. Washoe.-"Information Wanted" -- APPENDIXES -- A: Attributed Items: Hannibal and the River -- B: Attributed Items: Nevada Territory -- C: Advertisements, Prefaces, and Contracts -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- TEXTUAL APPARATUS -- Textual Introduction -- Description of Texts -- Textual Commentaries, Notes, and Tables -- Word Division in This Volume -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to "write but little for periodicals hereafter." In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description-the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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