Sketches New and Old
Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others.
Contents
- "Preface"
- "My Watch"
- "Political Economy"
- "The Jumping Frog"
- "Journalism in Tennessee"
- "The Story of the Bad Little Boy"
- "The Story of the Good Little Boy"
- "A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore"
- "Niagara"
- "Answers to Correspondents"
- "To Raise Poultry"
- "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup"
- "My First Literary Venture"
- "How the Author Was Sold in Newark"
- "The Office Bore"
- "Johnny Greer"
- "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract"
- "The Case of George Fisher"
- "Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy"
- "The Judges 'Spirited Woman'"
- "Information Wanted"
- "Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girls"
- "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship"
- "A Fashion Item"
- "Riley-Newspaper Correspondent"
- "A Fine Old Man"
- "Science vs. Luck"
- "The Late Benjamin Franklin"
- "Mr. Bloke's Item"
- "A Medieval Romance"
- "Petition Concerning Copyright"
- "After-Dinner Speech"
- "Lionizing Murderers"
- "A New Crime"
- "A Curious Dream"
- "A True Story"
- "The Siamese Twins"
- "Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London"
- "A Ghost Story"
- "The Capitoline Venus"
- "Speech on Accident Insurance"
- "John Chinaman in New York"
- "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"
- "The Petrified Man"
- "My Bloody Massacre"
- "The Undertaker's Chat"
- "Concerning Chambermaids"
- "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man"
- "'After' Jenkins"
- "About Barbers"
- "'Party Cries' in Ireland"
- "The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation"
- "History Repeats Itself"
- "Honored as a Curiosity"
- "First Interview with Artemus Ward"
- "Cannibalism in the Cars"
- "The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized'"
- "The Widow's Protest"
- "The Scriptual Panoramist"
- "Curing a Cold"
- "A Curious Pleasure Excursion"
- "Running for Governor"
- "A Mysterious Visit"
External links
- Sketches New and Old at Project Gutenberg
- Sketches New and Old public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Bibliography
- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The American Claimant
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story
- A Horse's Tale
- The Mysterious Stranger
- Hellfire Hotchkiss
- "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
- "Cannibalism in the Cars"
- "A Literary Nightmare"
- "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage"
- "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn"
- "1601"
- "The Stolen White Elephant"
- "Luck"
- "The Million Pound Bank Note"
- "A Double Barrelled Detective Story"
- "Those Extraordinary Twins"
- "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
- "A Dog's Tale"
- "Extracts from Adam's Diary"
- "The War Prayer"
- "Eve's Diary"
- "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"
- "My Platonic Sweetheart"
- "Advice for Good Little Girls"
- Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
- Sketches New and Old
- Mark Twain's Library of Humor
- Merry Tales
- The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
- The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
- "The Awful German Language"
- "On the Decay of the Art of Lying"
- "Advice to Youth"
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- "Concerning the Jews"
- "To the Person Sitting in Darkness"
- "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany"
- "What Is Man?"
- "The United States of Lyncherdom"
- "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
- Letters from the Earth
- Territorial Enterprise letters
- Letters from Hawaii
- The Innocents Abroad
- Roughing It
- Old Times on the Mississippi
- A Tramp Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Following the Equator
- Is Shakespeare Dead?
- Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography)
- King Leopold's Soliloquy
- The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
- Christian Science
- "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"
- "Votes for Women"
and events
- Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
- Mark Twain Tonight!
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
- Mark Twain (2001 documentary)
- Twain and Shaw Do Lunch (2011 play)
- Mark Twain: The Musical
- Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife)
- Susy Clemens (daughter)
- Clara Clemens (daughter)
- Jean Clemens (daughter)
- John M. Clemens (father)
- Jane Lampton Clemens (mother)
- Orion Clemens (brother)
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