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(1835-1910)

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## The American Claimant

## A Dog's Tale

## Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Eve's Diary

## The Innocents Abroad

## A Tramp Abroad

## A Gilded Age

## Following The Equator

## Sketches New and Old

## Huckleberry Finn

## Adventures of Tom Sawyer

## Roughing It

## Prince and Pauper

## Connecticut Yankee

## Life on the Mississippi

Letters

## Volume 1.

## Volume 2.

## Volume 3

## Volume 4.

## Volume 5.

## Volume 6.

Without Illustrations

## Mysterious Stranger

## The Double Barrelled Detective

## The Stolen White Elephant

## Rambling Idle Excursion

## Carnival of Crime in CT.

## The Loves of Alonzo Fitz

## Those Extraordinary Twins

## A Burlesque Autobiography

## Mysterious Stranger

## Christian Science

## Mark Twain's Speeches

## 1601

## Curious Republic of Gondour

## Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

## Essays on Paul Bourget

## How to Tell a Story

## Fennimore Cooper Offences

## Defence of Harriet Shelley

## Hadleyberg Stories et al.

## What Is Man? And Others

## Tom Sawyer Abroad

## Tom Sawyer, Detective

## The $30,000 Bequest and Others

## Recollections of Joan of Arc, I.

## Recollections of Joan of Arc, II.

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Captain Stormfield's Vist to Heaven

A Horse's Tale

Is Shakespeare Dead?

The Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg

VOLUMES, CHAPTERS

and ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustrated Editions

THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT

CHAPTER I.

The Earl of Rossmore vs. the American
Claimant—Viscount
Berkeley proposes to change places with the
Claimant—
The Claimant's letter—Lord Berkeley decides
to visit
America

CHAPTER II.

Colonel Mulberry Sellers and his art gallery—
He receives a
visit from Washington Hawkins—Talking over

CHAPTER XIII.
Tracy and trades-unions—Unpopularity with
fellow-boarders
—Which changes to popularity on his punishing

old times
—Washington informs the colonel that he is the
congressional
delegate from Cherokee Strip.

CHAPTER III.

Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel "the same
old scheming,
generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful,
no-account
failure he always was"—He takes in Dan'l and
Jinny—
The colonel originates "Pigs in the Clover"—He
offers
one of his art treasures to propitiate Suggs—
One-armed
Pete; the bank thief

CHAPTER IV.

A Yankee makes an offer for "Pigs in the
Clover"—By the
death of a relative Sellers becomes the rightful
Earl of
Rossmore and consequently the American
Clairnant—
Gwendolen is sent for from school—The
remains of the
late Claimant and brother to be shipped to
England—
Hawkins and Sellers nail the hatchments on
"Rossmore
Towers"

CHAPTER V.

Gwendolen's letter—Her arrival at home—
Hawkins is introduced,
to his great pleasure—Communication from the
bank thief—
Hawkins and Sellers have to wait ten days
longer before
getting the reward—Viscount Berkeley and the
late Claimant's
remains start simultaneously from England and
America

CHAPTER VI.

Arrival of the remains of late Claimant and
brother in England
—The usurping earl officiates as chief mourner,
and they
are laid with their kindred in Cholmondeley
church—Sally
Sellers a gifted costume-designer—Another
communication
from the bank thief—Locating him in the New
Gadsby—
The colonel's glimpse of one—armed Pete in
the elevator—
Arrival of Viscount Berkeley at the same hotel

CHAPTER VII.

Allen—
The cablegram

CHAPTER XIV.

"Mechanics' Debating Club" again—Tracy is
comforted by
Barrow's remarks—"Fool or no fool, he would
grab it"
—"Earldom! oh, yes, take it if it offers"

CHAPTER XV.

"You forgot to pay your board"—"I've been
robbed "—Mr.
Allen among the missing, likewise other things—
The
cablegram: "Thanks"—Despair of Tracy—"You've
got
to amuse your mind"

CHAPTER XVI.
The collaborative art collection—The artists—"The
cannon's
our trademark"—Tracy's mind is amused

CHAPTER XVII.
No further cablegram—"If those ghastly artists
want a confederate,
I'm their man"—Tracy taken into partnership—
Disappointments
of materialization — The phonograph adapted to
marine service
—Utilization of wasted sewer gas

CHAPTER XVIII.

The colonel's project to set Russia free—"I am
going to buy
Siberia"—The materializee turns up—Being an
artist he
is invited to restore the colonel's collection—
Which he
forthwith begins

CHAPTER XIX.
The perplexities and nobilities of materialization—
The materializee
eats a couple of apples—Horror of Hawkins and
Sellers—It must be
a mistake"

CHAPTER XX.

Tracy's perplexities with regard to the Claimant's
sanity—
The Claimant interviews him—Sally Sellers meets
Tracy
—A violent case of love at first sight—Pinks

CHAPTER XXI.

Empty painting; empty millinerizing—Tracy's work
satisfactory—
Sellers's new picture of Lord Berkeley—"He is a

Viscount Berkeley jots down his "impressions"
to date with
a quill pen—The destruction of the New
Gadsby by fire—
Berkeley loses his bearings and escapes with his
journaled
"impressions" only—Discovery and hasty
donning of
one-armed Pete's abandoned wardrobe—
Glowing and affecting
account in the morning papers of the heroic
death of the
heir of Rossmore—He will take a new name
and start out "incog"

CHAPTER VIII.
The colonel's grief at the loss of both Berkeley
and one-armed
Pete—Materialization—Breaking the news to
the family—
The colonel starts to identify and secure a body
(or ashes)
to send to the bereaved father

CHAPTER IX.

The usual actress and her diamonds in the hotel
fire—The
colonel secures three baskets of ashes—Mrs.
Sellers forbids
their lying in state—Generous hatchments—The
ashes to be
sent only when the earl sends for them

CHAPTER X.

Lord Berkeley deposits the $500 found in his
appropriated
clothes—Attends
"Mechanics'
Debating

Club"—Berkeley
(alias Tracy) is glad he came to this country

CHAPTER XI.

No work for Tracy—Cheaper lodgings secured
—Sleeping on
the
roof—"My
daughter
Hattie"—Tracy

receives further
"impressions" from Hattie (otherwise "Puss")—
Mr. Barrow
appears—And offers to help Tracy find work

CHAPTER XII.

A boarding—house dinner—"No money, no
dinner" for Mr.
Brady—"How did you come to mount that
hat?"—A glimpse
of (the supposed) one-armed Pete—Extract
from
Tracy's diary

wobbler"—
The unsuccessful dinner—parties—"They flung
their arms about
each other's necks"

CHAPTER XXII.

"The materializing has got to stop where it is"—
Sally Sellers
repudiates "Lady Gwendolen"—The late Lord
Berkeley Sally's hero—
"The shady devil [Doubt] had knifed her"

CHAPTER XXIII.

Tracy writes to his father—The rival houses to be
united by
his marriage to Sally Sellers—The earl decides to
"step
over and take a hand"—"The course of true love,"
etc.,
as usual—"You an earl's son! show me the signs"

CHAPTER XXIV.

Time drags heavily for all concerned—Success of
"Pigs in the
Clover"—Sellers is "fixed" for his temperance
lecture—
Colonel and Mrs. Sellers start for Europe—
Interview of
Hawkins and Sally—Tracy an impostor

CHAPTER XXV.

Telegram:
"She's
going
to
marry
the

materializee"—Interview
between Tracy and Sally—Arrival of the usurping
earl—
"You can have him if you'll take him"—A quiet
wedding
at the Towers—Sellers does not join the party to
England—
Preparing to furnish climates to order

APPENDIX.

The weather in this book

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

" H e was constructing some kind of frail
mechanical toy."
" I t must try your patience pretty sharply
sometimes."
One-armed Pete
"Father, I am going to shake hands with Major
Hawkins."
"Must + he go down in his spectral night dress?"
"Clah to goodness it's de fust time I've sot eyes on
'em."
Parker, assistant editor of the Democrat
"How do you do?"
"Both were so paralyzed with joy."
"It had already happened."
"His thoughts had been far away from these
things."
"Fool or no fool, he would grab it."

"No. 5 started a laugh."
Capt. Saltmarsh and brother of the brush
Wasted sewer gas
"Eastward with that great light transfiguring their
faces."
It was a violent case of mutual love at first sight
"Time dragged heavily for both, now."
"Oh, my God, she's kissing it!"
"The shady devil had knifed her."
"You an earl's son! Show me the signs."
"My father!"
"Finally there was a quiet wedding at the
Towers."

A Dog's Tale

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Book Cover

2. Frontpiece

3. By-and-by Came My Little Puppy

4. Flocked In To Hear Of My Heroism

5. You Saved HIS Child

Chapter

I.

Chapter

II.

Chapter

III.

Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

A WHISPER TO THE READER

CHAPTER 1 — Pudd'nhead Wins His Name

CHAPTER 2 — Driscoll Spares His Slaves

CHAPTER 3 — Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick

CHAPTER 4 — The Ways of the Changelings

CHAPTER 5 — The Twins Thrill Dawson's Landing

CHAPTER 6 — Swimming in Glory

CHAPTER 7 — The Unknown Nymph

CHAPTER 8 — Marse Tom Tramples His Chance

CHAPTER 9 — Tom Practices Sycophancy

CHAPTER 10 — The Nymph Revealed

CHAPTER 11 — Pudd'nhead's Thrilling Discovery

CHAPTER 12 — The Shame of Judge Driscoll

CHAPTER 13 — Tom Stares at Ruin

CHAPTER 14 — Roxana Insists Upon Reform

CHAPTER 15 — The Robber Robbed

CHAPTER 16 — Sold Down the River

CHAPTER 17 — The Judge Utters Dire Prophesy

CHAPTER 18 — Roxana Commands

CHAPTER 19 — The Prophesy Realized

CHAPTER 20 — The Murderer Chuckles

CHAPTER 21 — Doom

CONCLUSION

AUTHOR'S NOTE TO "THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS"

Letters, Volume 1.

FOREWORD

MARK TWAIN—A BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS

I.
EARLY LETTERS, 1853. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA

II.
LETTERS 1856-61. KEOKUK, AND THE RIVER. END OF PILOTING

III.
LETTERS 1861-62. ON THE FRONTIER. MINING ADVENTURES.
JOURNALISTIC

BEGINNINGS.

IV.
LETTERS 1863-64. "MARK TWAIN." COMSTOCK JOURNALISM. ARTEMUS WARD

V.
LETTERS 1864-66. SAN FRANCISCO AND HAWAII

VI.
LETTERS 1866-67. THE LECTURER. SUCCESS ON THE COAST.
IN NEW YORK. THE

GREAT OCEAN EXCURSION.

Volume 2.

VII.
LETTERS 1867. THE TRAVELER. THE VOYAGE OF THE "QUAKER CITY"

VIII.
LETTERS 1867-68. WASHINGTON AND SAN FRANCISCO. THE
PROPOSED BOOK OF

TRAVEL. A NEW LECTURE.

IX.
LETTERS 1868-70. COURTSHIP, AND "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD"

X.
LETTERS 1870-71. MARK TWAIN IN BUFFALO. MARRIAGE. THE
BUFFALO EXPRESS.

"MEMORANDA." LECTURES. A NEW BOOK.

XI.
LETTERS 1871-72. REMOVAL TO HARTFORD. A LECTURE TOUR.
"ROUGHING IT."

FIRST LETTER TO HOWELLS.

XII.
LETTERS
1872-73.
MARK
TWAIN
IN
ENGLAND.
LONDON
HONORS.

ACQUAINTANCE WITH DR. JOHN BROWN. A LECTURE TRIUMPH. "THE
GILDED

AGE".

XIII.
LETTERS 1874. HARTFORD AND ELMIRA. A NEW STUDY.
BEGINNING "TOM

SAWYER." THE SELLERS PLAY.

XIV.
LETTERS 1874. MISSISSIPPI CHAPTERS. VISITS TO BOSTON. A JOKE ON ALDRICH.

XV.
LETTERS FROM HARTFORD, 1875. MUCH CORRESPONDENCE WITH HOWELLS

Volume 3

XVI.
LETTERS, 1876, CHIEFLY TO W. D. HOWELLS. LITERATURE
AND POLITICS.

PLANNING A PLAY WITH BRET HARTE.

XVII.
LETTERS, 1877. TO BERMUDA WITH TWICHELL. PROPOSITION
TO TH. NAST. THE

WHITTIER DINNER.

XVIII.
LETTERS FROM EUROPE, 1878-79. TRAMPING WITH
TWICHELL. WRITING A NEW

TRAVEL BOOK. LIFE IN MUNICH.

XIX.
LETTERS 1879. RETURN TO AMERICA. THE GREAT GRANT REUNION

XX.
LETTERS OF 1880, CHIEFLY TO HOWELLS. "THE PRINCE AND
THE PAUPER." MARK

TWAIN MUGWUMP SOCIETY.

XXI.
LETTERS 1881, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. ASSISTING A
YOUNG SCULPTOR.

LITERARY PLANS.

XXII.
LETTERS, 1882, MAINLY TO HOWELLS. WASTED FURY. OLD
SCENES REVISITED.

THE MISSISSIPPI BOOK.

XXIII.
LETTERS, 1883, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. A GUEST OF
THE MARQUIS OF LORNE.

THE HISTORY GAME. A PLAY BY HOWELLS AND MARK TWAIN.

XXIV.
LETTERS, 1884, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. CABLE'S GREAT
APRIL FOOL. "HUCK

FINN" IN PRESS. MARK TWAIN FOR CLEVELAND. CLEMENS AND CABLE.

XXV.
THE GREAT YEAR OF 1885. CLEMENS AND CABLE. PUBLICATION OF "HUCK

Volume 4.

XXVI.
LETTERS, 1886-87. JANE CLEMENS'S ROMANCE. UNMAILED LETTERS, ETC.

XXVII.
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF 1887. LITERARY ARTICLES. PEACEFUL DAYS AT THE
FARM. FAVORITE READING. APOLOGY TO MRS. CLEVELAND, ETC.

XXVIII.
LETTERS,1888. A YALE DEGREE. WORK ON "THE YANKEE."
ON INTERVIEWING,

ETC.

XXIX.
LETTERS, 1889. THE MACHINE. DEATH OF MR. CRANE.
CONCLUSION OF THE

YANKEE.

XXX.
LETTERS, 1890, CHIEFLY TO JOS. T. GOODMAN. THE GREAT MACHINE ENTERPRISE

XXXI.
LETTERS, 1891, TO HOWELLS, MRS. CLEMENS AND OTHERS.
RETURN TO

LITERATURE. AMERICAN CLAIMANT. LEAVING HARTFORD. EUROPE.
DOWN THE

RHINE.

XXXII.
LETTERS, 1892, CHIEFLY TO MR. HALL AND MRS. CRANE.
IN BERLIN, MENTONE,

BAD-NAUHEIM, FLORENCE.

XXXIII.
LETTERS, 1893, TO MR. HALL, MRS. CLEMENS, AND OTHERS. FLORENCE. BUSINESS
TROUBLES. "PUDD'NHEAD WILSON." "JOAN OF ARC." AT THE PLAYERS, NEW

XXXIV.
LETTERS 1894. A WINTER IN NEW YORK. BUSINESS
FAILURE. END OF THE

MACHINE.

XXXV.
LETTERS, 1895-96, TO H. H. ROGERS AND OTHERS.
FINISHING "JOAN OF ARC." THE

TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. DEATH OF SUSY CLEMENS.

XXXVI.
LETTERS 1897. LONDON, SWITZERLAND, VIENNA

XXXVII.
LETTERS, 1898, TO HOWELLS AND TWICHELL. LIFE IN
VIENNA. PAYMENT OF THE

DEBTS. ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPRESS.

XXXVIII.
LETTERS, 1899, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. VIENNA.
LONDON. A SUMMER IN

SWEDEN.

XXXIX.
LETTERS OF 1900, MAINLY TO TWICHELL. THE BOER WAR.
BOXER TROUBLES. THE

RETURN TO AMERICA.

Volume 5.

XL.
LETTERS OF 1901, CHIEFLY TO TWICHELL. MARK TWAIN AS A
REFORMER.

SUMMER AT SARANAC. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY.

XLI.
LETTERS OF 1902. RIVERDALE. YORK HARBOR. ILLNESS OF MRS. CLEMENS

XLII.
LETTERS OF 1903. TO VARIOUS PERSONS. HARD DAYS AT
RIVERDALE. LAST

SUMMER AT ELMIRA. THE RETURN TO ITALY.

XLIII.
LETTERS OF 1904. TO VARIOUS PERSONS. LIFE IN VILLA
QUARTO. DEATH OF MRS.

CLEMENS. THE RETURN TO AMERICA.

XLIV.
LETTERS OF 1905. TO TWICHELL, MR. DUNEKA AND OTHERS.
POLITICS AND

HUMANITY. A SUMMER AT DUBLIN. MARK TWAIN AT 70.

XLV.
LETTERS, 1906, TO VARIOUS PERSONS. THE FAREWELL
LECTURE. A SECOND

SUMMER IN DUBLIN. BILLIARDS AND COPYRIGHT.

Volume 6.

XLVI.
LETTERS 1907-08. A DEGREE FROM OXFORD. THE NEW HOME AT REDDING.

XLVII.
LETTERS, 1909. TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. LIFE AT
STORMFIELD. COPYRIGHT

EXTENSION. DEATH OF JEAN CLEMENS

XLVIII.
LETTERS OF 1910. LAST TRIP TO BERMUDA. LETTERS TO PAINE. THE LAST LETTER.

Mysterious Stranger

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

A FABLE

HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY

THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM

The Double Barrelled Detective

PART I

I

II

III

IV.

V

PART II

I

II

III

IV

V

The Stolen White Elephant

I.

II

III

Rambling Idle Excursion

I.

II.

III.

IV.

Carnival of Crime in CT.

The Loves of Alonzo Fitz

THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON

ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING

ABOUT MAGNANIMOUS-INCIDENT LITERATURE

PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH

THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN PITCAIRN

THE CANVASSER'S TALE

AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN INTERVIEWER

PARIS NOTES

LEGEND OF SAGENFELD, IN GERMANY

SPEECH ON THE BABIES

SPEECH ON THE WEATHER

CONCERNING THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE

ROGERS

Those Extraordinary Twins

CHAPTER I.
THE TWINS AS THEY REALLY WERE

CHAPTER II.
MA COOPER GETS ALL MIXED UP

CHAPTER III.
ANGELO IS BLUE

CHAPTER IV.
SUPERNATURAL CHRONOMETRY

CHAPTER V.
GUILT AND INNOCENCE FINELY BLENT

CHAPTER VI.
THE AMAZING DUEL

CHAPTER VII.
LUIGI DEFIES GALEN

CHAPTER VIII.
BAPTISM OF THE BETTER HALF

CHAPTER IX.
THE DRINKLESS DRUNK

CHAPTER X.
SO THEY HANGED LUIGI

FINAL REMARKS.

A Burlesque Autobiography

BURLESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

AWFUL, TERRIBLE MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.

CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS

CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS.

CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION.

CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE.

Mysterious Stranger

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

A FABLE

HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY

THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM

Christian Science

PREFACE

BOOK I. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III