The Collected Works of Mark Twain E-Book

Mark Twain

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 18600 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • The Prince and the Pauper • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court • Life on the Mississippi • The Innocents Abroad • Roughing It • Eve's Diary, Complete • Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World • The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories • The Best American Humorous Short Stories • A Tramp Abroad • Sketches New and Old • 's Speeches • The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays • The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today and Charles Dudley Warner • A Dog's Tale • The Great English Short-Story Writers • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn •: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors • The $, Bequest, and Other Stories • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc • Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences • What Is Man? and Other Essays • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg • A Horse's Tale • Short Stories for English Courses • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories • On the Decay of the Art of Lying • The Works Of • Christian Science • Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • Tom Sawyer Abroad • Tom Sawyer, Detective • A Double Barrelled Detective Story • The Stolen White Elephant • Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales •: A Biography. CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine • Mark Twain's Letters — Volume • Chapters from My Autobiography • The Awful German Language • Is Shakespeare Dead? • A Tramp Abroad • etc.

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Table of Contents

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

(Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

THE TREATY WITH CHINA

ITS PROVISIONS EXPLAINED

New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

ARTICLE I.

ARTICLE 2.

ARTICLE 3.

ARTICLE 4.

ARTICLE 5.

ARTICLE 6.

ARTICLE 7.

ARTICLE 8.

A TRAMP ABROAD, Part 1

(Samuel L. Clemens)

First published in 1880

CONTENTS

APPENDIX

CHAPTER I

[The Knighted Knave of Bergen]

"THE KNAVE OF BERGEN"

CHAPTER II

Heidelberg

[Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg]

CHAPTER III

Baker's Bluejay Yarn

[What Stumped the Blue Jays]

CHAPTER IV

Student Life

[The Laborious Beer King]

CHAPTER V

At the Students' Dueling-Ground

[Dueling by Wholesale]

CHAPTER VI

[A Sport that Sometimes Kills]

CHAPTER VII

[How Bismark Fought]

CHAPTER VIII

The Great French Duel

[I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel]

CHAPTER IX

[What the Beautiful Maiden Said]

CHAPTER X

[How Wagner Operas Bang Along]

CHAPTER XI

[I Paint a "Turner"]

CHAPTER XII

[What the Wives Saved]

CHAPTER XIII

[My Long Crawl in the Dark]

CHAPTER XIV

[Rafting Down the Neckar]

CHAPTER XV

[Charming Waterside Pictures]

THE CAVE OF THE SPECTER

CHAPTER XVI

An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei]

THE LEGEND

THE LORELEI

THE LORELEI

CHAPTER XVII

[Why Germans Wear Spectacles]

LEGEND OF THE "SPECTACULAR RUIN"

CHAPTER XVIII

[The Kindly Courtesy of Germans]

CHAPTER XIX

[The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg]

THE LEGEND OF DILSBERG CASTLE

CHAPTER XX

[My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug]

CHAPTER XXI

[Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans]

CHAPTER XXII

[The Black Forest and Its Treasures]

SKELETON FOR A BLACK FOREST NOVEL

CHAPTER XXIII

[Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton]

CHAPTER XXIV

[I Protect the Empress of Germany]

CHAPTER XXV

[Hunted by the Little Chamois]

CHAPTER XXVI

[The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock]

CHAPTER XXVII

[I Spare an Awful Bore]

CHAPTER XXVIII

[The Jodel and Its Native Wilds]

CHAPTER XXIX

[Looking West for Sunrise]

CHAPTER XXX

[Harris Climbs Mountains for Me]

CHAPTER XXXI

[Alp-scaling by Carriage]

CHAPTER XXXII

[The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano]

CHAPTER XXXIII

[We Climb Far—by Buggy]

CHAPTER XXXIV

[The World's Highest Pig Farm]

CHAPTER XXXV

[Swindling the Coroner]

CHAPTER XXXVI

[The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]

CHAPTER XXXVII

[Our Imposing Column Starts Upward]

CHAPTER XXXVIII

[I Conquer the Gorner Grat]

CHAPTER XXXIX

[We Travel by Glacier]

CHAPTER XL

[Piteous Relics at Chamonix]

CHAPTER XLI

[The Fearful Disaster of 1865]

MR. WHYMPER'S NARRATIVE

CHAPTER XLII

[Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon]

CHAPTER XLIII

[My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]

CHAPTER XLIX

[I Scale Mont Blanc—by Telescope]

CHAPTER XLV

A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives

CHAPTER XLVI

[Meeting a Hog on a Precipice]

CHAPTER XLVII

[Queer European Manners]

CHAPTER XLVIII

[Beauty of Women—and of Old Masters]

CHAPTER XLIX

[Hanged with a Golden Rope]

RECIPE FOR AN ASH-CAKE

RECIPE FOR NEW ENGLISH PIE

RECIPE FOR GERMAN COFFEE

TO CARVE FOWLS IN THE GERMAN FASHION

CHAPTER L

[Titian Bad and Titian Good]

APPENDIX

APPENDIX A.

The Portier

APPENDIX B.

Heidelberg Castle

APPENDIX C.

The College Prison

APPENDIX D.

The Awful German Language

APPENDIX E.

LEGEND OF THE CASTLES

APPENDIX F.

GERMAN JOURNALS

THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON

TOM SAWYER ABROAD

By Mark Twain

CHAPTER I. TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES

CHAPTER II. THE BALLOON ASCENSION

CHAPTER III. TOM EXPLAINS

CHAPTER IV. STORM

CHAPTER V. LAND

CHAPTER VI. IT'S A CARAVAN

CHAPTER VII. TOM RESPECTS THE FLEA

CHAPTER VIII. THE DISAPPEARING LAKE

CHAPTER IX. TOM DISCOURSES ON THE DESERT

CHAPTER X. THE TREASURE-HILL

TOM said it happened like this.

CHAPTER XI. THE SAND-STORM

CHAPTER XII. JIM STANDING SIEGE

CHAPTER XIII. GOING FOR TOM'S PIPE:

TOM SAWYER ABROAD

By Mark Twain

CHAPTER I. TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES

CHAPTER II. THE BALLOON ASCENSION

CHAPTER III. TOM EXPLAINS

CHAPTER IV. STORM

CHAPTER V. LAND

CHAPTER VI. IT'S A CARAVAN

CHAPTER VII. TOM RESPECTS THE FLEA

CHAPTER VIII. THE DISAPPEARING LAKE

CHAPTER IX. TOM DISCOURSES ON THE DESERT

CHAPTER X. THE TREASURE-HILL

TOM said it happened like this.

CHAPTER XI. THE SAND-STORM

CHAPTER XII. JIM STANDING SIEGE

CHAPTER XIII. GOING FOR TOM'S PIPE:

STHOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS

KETCHES NEW AND OLD

by Mark Twain

Complete

THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT

SKETCHES NEW AND OLSKETCHES NEW AND OLD

THOSE ANNUAL BILLS

ROUGHING IT

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC

VOLUME 1 (of 2)

By Mark Twain

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC

By The Sieur Louis De Conte

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

A PECULIARITY OF JOAN OF ARC'S HISTORY

THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE

To his Great-Great-Grand Nephews and Nieces

BOOK I IN DOMREMY

Chapter 1 When Wolves Ran Free in Paris

Chapter 2 The Fairy Tree of Domremy

Chapter 3 All Aflame with Love of France