MARK TWAIN : INTRODUCTION. Origins ; Tramp Printer and River Pilot ; On the Move ; Literary Humorist ; Innocents Abroad ; Mark Twain, Romanticist ; The Financial Background ; The Final Stage ; The Real Mark Twain ; Mark Twain, Satirist ; Beliefs ; Literary Influences ; A Set of Books

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bibliography ; Bibliographies and Autobiographies ; Memorabilia ; Mark Twain and the West ; Criticism

CHRONOLOGY OF MARK TWAIN

SELECTIONS. Writings of the Early Period (The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; A Yankee in the Orient) ; from The Innocents Abroad (Petrarch and Laura ; Como Compared with Tahoe ; Bloody Shrines ; Magnificence and Misery ; Asinine Guides ; A Bloodless Midnight Adventure ; The Story of Joseph ; Climbing the Pyramids ; Return of the Holy Land Excursionists) ; from Memoranda (The tournament in A.D. 1870 ; Goldsmith's friend abroad again ; A general reply ; An entertaining article ; About a remarkable stranger) ; from Roughing It (The jackass rabbit ; Across the prairies ; The pony-rider ; The history of Slade ; The history of Slade, concluded ; The silver fever ; Our manner of going ; The bubble pricked ; We own millions in claims ; Bound for Hawaii ; Among the volcanoes ; Kilauea ; The island of Maui ; Home again in San Francisco) ; from The Gilded Age (Uncle Daniel's apparition and prayer ; The steamboat explosion ; Settlers in Missouri ; The Tennessee land ; Colonel Sellers, host ; Colonel Sellers, financial wizard ; The seat of government ; Public works) ; Old Times on the Mississippi (Boyish ambition ; The cub pilot's first lessons ; The cub learns ; Learning more : expert piloting ; Taking soundings : memory ; Power and glory : one big union ; Steamboat racing : cut-offs) ; from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Pain-killer as cat medicine ; The pirates sail the river ; Pirates in camp ; A pirate under the bed ; Homesick buccaneers ; They attend their own funeral ; Tom Sawyer, town hero ; "I didn't think" ; Pirate gold ; The pirates return for their treasure ; Tracking them down ; The den of Injun Joe ; In the cave ; The treasure hunt ; The finding of the gold) ; from Atlantic Monthly Papers (The curious Republic of Gondour ; The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut ; Some rambling notes of an idle excursion).