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| Contents |
I. Humorist in the West. Life on the Salt River -- Window to the West -- Orion -- Southwest humorist -- Tramp printer -- Cub pilot -- Death on the Mississippi -- Fetching Grant -- Lighting out -- A millionaire for ten days -- "Mark Twain" -- Governor of the Third House -- The jumping frog -- Vandal abroad -- Wild humorist of the Pacific slope -- II. Writer in the East. Westerner in the East -- Pilgrims on the loose -- Love in a locket -- The innocent at home -- False start in Buffalo -- Back on the lecture circuit -- Home in Hartford -- Sequel to a success -- A book about the English -- Colonel Sellers -- Mississippi memories -- The Riley book -- Banned in Boston -- The innocent abroad again -- Down and out in Paris and London -- III. The artist and the businessman. Associations new and old -- Return to the river and the lecture circuit -- Mark Twain and the phunny phellows -- Webster and Paige -- A romance of the white conscience -- Publishing Grant -- Brooding in King Arthur's Court -- Progress and poverty -- Europe on only dollars a day -- A dream sold down the river -- Family matters -- A friend at Standard Oil -- Broken twigs and found canoes -- Back home and overland -- Lost in the British Empire -- Mark Twain's daughter -- IV. The mysterious stranger. City of dreams -- Winter fantasies -- Weary sojourners -- Exile's return -- Homeless -- A death in Florence -- Appendix A : Clemens genealogy -- Appendix B : Books published by Charles L. Webster & Company. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009015366 |
| ISBN | 9780520252578 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520252578 (cloth : alk. paper) |
