Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

by Albert Bigelow Paine

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Contents

1. The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
2. An Acknowledgment
3. Prefatory Note
4. I. Ancestors
5. II. The Fortunes of John and Jane Clemens
6. III. A Humble Birthplace
7. IV. Beginning a Long Journey
8. V. The Way of Fortune
9. VI. A New Home
10. VII. The Little Town of Hannibal
11. VIII. The Farm
12. IX. School-Days
13. X. Early Vicissitude and Sorrow
14. XI. Days of Education
15. XII. Tom Sawyer's Band
16. XIII. The Gentler Side
17. XIV. The Passing of John Clemens
18. XV. A Young Ben Franklin
19. XVI. The Turning-Point
20. XVII. The Hannibal “Journal”
21. XVIII. The Beginning of a Literary Life
22. XIX. In the Footsteps of Franklin
23. XX. Keokuk Days
24. XXI. Scotchman Named Macfarlane
25. XXII. The Old Call of the River
26. XXIII. The Supreme Science
27. XXIV. The River Curriculum
28. XXV. Love-Making and Adventure
29. XXVI. The Tragedy of the “Pennsylvania”
30. XXVII. The Pilot
31. XXVIII. Piloting and Prophecy
32. XXIX. The End of Piloting
33. XXX. The Soldier
34. XXXI. Over the Hills and Far Away
35. XXXII. The Pioneer
36. XXXIII. The Prospector
37. XXXIV. Territorial Characteristics
38. XXXV. The Miner
39. XXXVI. Last Mining Days
40. XXXVII. The New Estate
41. XXXVIII. One of the “Staff”
42. XXXIX. Philosophy and Poetry
43. XL. “Mark Twain”
44. XLI. The Cream of Comstock Humor
45. XLII Reportorial Days
46. XLIII. Artemus Ward
47. XLIV. Governor of the “Third House”
48. XLV. A Comstock Duel
49. XLVI. Getting Settled in San Francisco
50. XLVII. Bohemian Days
51. XLVIII. The Refuge of the Hills
52. XLIX. The Jumping Frog
53. L. Back to the Tumult
54. LI. The Corner-Stone
55. LII. A Commission to the Sandwich Islands
56. LIII. Anson Burlingame and the “Hornet” Disaster
57. LIV. The Lecturer
58. LV. Highway Robbery
59. LVI. Back to the States
60. LVII. Old Friends and New Plans
61. LVIII. A New Book and a Lecture
62. LIX. The First Book
63. LX. The Innocents at Sea
64. LXI. The Innocents Abroad
65. LXII. The Return of the Pilgrims
66. LXIII. In Washington—A Publishing Proposition
67. LXIV. Olivia Langdon
68. LXV. A Contract with Elisha Bliss, Jr
69. LXVI. Back to San Francisco
70. LXVII. A Visit to Elmira
71. LXVIII. The Rev. “Joe” Twichell
72. LXIX. A Lecture Tour
73. LXX. Innocents at Home—And “the Innocents Abroad”
74. LXXI. The Great Book of Travel
75. LXXII.The Purchase of a Paper
76. LXXIII. The First Meeting with Howells
77. LXXIV. The Wedding-Day
78. LXXV. As to Destiny
79. LXXVI. On the Buffalo “Express”
80. LXXVII. The “Galaxy”
81. LXXVIII. The Primrose Path
82. LXXIX. The Old Human Story
83. LXXX. Literary Projects
84. LXXXI. Some Further Literary Matters
85. LXXXII. The Writing of “Roughing It”
86. LXXXIII. Lecturing Days
87. LXXXIV. “Roughing It”
88. LXXXV. A Birth, a Death, and a Voyage
89. LXXXVI. England
90. LXXXVII. The Book That Was Never Written
91. LXXXVIII. “The Gilded Age”
92. LXXXIX. Planning a New Home
93. XC. A Long English Holiday
94. XCI. A London Lecture
95. XCII. Further London Lecture Triumphs
96. XCIII. The Real Colonel Sellers-Golden Days
97. XCIV. Beginning “Tom Sawyer”
98. XCV. An “Atlantic” Story and a Play
99. XCVI. The New Home
100. XCVII. The Walk to Boston
101. XCVIII. “Old Times on the Mississippi”
102. XCIX. A Typewriter, and a Joke on Aldrich
103. C. Raymond, Mental Telegraphy, Etc
104. CI. Concluding “Tom Sawyer”—Mark TWAIN's “Editors”
105. CII. “Sketches New and Old”
106. CIII. “Atlantic” Days
107. CIV. Mark Twain and His Wife
108. CV. Mark Twain at Forty
109. CVI. His First Stage Appearance
110. CVII. Howells, Clemens, and “George”
111. CVIII. Summer Labors at Quarry Farm
112. CIX. The Public Appearance of “Tom Sawyer”
113. CX. Mark Twain and Bret Harte Write a Play
114. CXI. A Bermuda Holiday
115. CXII. A New Play and a New Tale
116. CXIII. Two Domestic Dramas
117. CXIV. The Whittier Birthday Speech
118. CXV. Hartford and Billiards
119. CXVI. Off for Germany
120. CXVII. Germany and German
121. CXVIII. Tramping with Twichell
122. CXIX. Italian Days
123. CXX. In Munich
124. CXXI. Paris, England, and Homeward Bound
125. CXXII. An Interlude
126. CXXIII. The Grant Speech of 1879
127. CXXIV. Another “Atlantic” Speech
128. CXXV. The Quieter Things of Home
129. CXXVI. “A Tramp Abroad”
130. CXXVII. Letters, Tales, and Plans
131. CXXVIII. Mark TWAIN's Absent-Mindedness
132. CXXIX. Further Affairs at the Farm
133. CXXX. Copyright and Other Fancies
134. CXXXI. Working for Garfield
135. CXXXII. A New Publisher
136. CXXXIII. The Three Fires—Some Benefactions
137. CXXXIV. Literary Projects and a Monument to Adam
138. CXXXV. A Trip with Sherman and an Interview with Grant
139. CXXXVI. “The Prince and the Pauper”
140. CXXXVII. Certain Attacks and Reprisals
141. CXXXVIII. Many Undertakings
142. CXXXIX. Financial and Literary
143. CXL. Down the River
144. CXLI. Literature and Philosophy
145. CXLII. “Life on the Mississippi”
146. CXLIII. A Guest of Royalty
147. CXLIV. A Summer Literary Harvest
148. CXLV. Howells and Clemens Write a Play
149. CXLVI. Distinguished Visitors
150. CXLVII. The Fortunes of a Play
151. CXLVIII. Cable and His Great Joke
152. CXLIX. Mark Twain in Business
153. CL. Farm Pictures
154. CLI. Mark Twain Mugwumps
155. CLII. Platforming with Cable
156. CLIII. Huck Finn Comes Into His Own
157. CLIV. The Memoirs of General Grant
158. CLV. Days with a Dying Hero
159. CLVI. The Close of a Great Career
160. CLVII. Minor Matters of a Great Year
161. CLVIII. Mark Twain at Fifty
162. CLIX. The Life of the Pope
163. CLX. A Great Publisher at Home
164. CLXI. History: Mainly by Susy
165. CLXII. Browning, Meredith, and Meisterschaft
166. CLXIII. Letter to the Queen of England
167. CLXIV. Some Further Account of Charles L. Webster & Co
168. CLXV. Letters, Visits, and Visitors
169. Clvxvi. A “Player” and a Master of Arts
170. CLXVII. Notes and Literary Matters
171. CLXVIII. Introducing Nye and Riley and Others
172. CLXIX. The Coming of Kipling
173. CLXX. “The Prince and the Pauper” on the Stage
174. CLXXI. “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”
175. CLXXII. The “Yankee” in England
176. CLXXIII. A Summer at Onteora
177. CLXXIV. The Machine
178. CLXXV. “The Claimant”—Leaving Hartford
179. CLXXVI. A European Summer
180. CLXXVII. Kornerstrasse,7
181. CLXXVIII. A Winter in Berlin
182. CLXXIX. A Dinner with William II
183. CLXXX. Many Wanderings
184. CLXXXI. Nauheim and the Prince of Wales
185. CLXXXII. The Villa Viviani
186. CLXXXIII. The Sieur De Conte and Joan
187. CLXXXIV. New Hope in the Machine
188. CLXXXV. An Introduction to H. H. Rogers
189. CLXXXVI. “The Belle of New York”
190. CLXXXVII. Some Literary Matters
191. CLXXXVIII. Failure
192. CLXXXIX. An Eventful Year Ends
193. CXC. Starting on the Long Trail
194. CXCI. Clemens Had Been Ill in Elmira with a Carbuncle
195. CXCII. “Following the Equator”
196. CXCIII. The Passing of Susy
197. CXCIV. Winter in Tedworth Square
198. CXCV. “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”
199. CXCVI. Mr. Rogers and Helen Keller
200. CXCVII. Finishing the Book of Travel
201. CXCVIII. A Summer in Switzerland
202. CXCIX. Winter in Vienna
203. CC. Mark Twain Pays His Debts
204. CCI. Social Life in Vienna
205. CCII. Literary Work in Vienna
206. CCIII. An Imperial Tragedy
207. CCIV. The Second Winter in Vienna
208. CCV. Speeches That Were Not Made
209. CCVI. A Summer in Sweden
210. CCVII. 30, Wellington Court
211. CCVIII. Mark Twain and the Wars
212. CCIX. Plasmon, and a New Magazine
213. CCX. London Social Affairs
214. CCXI. Dollis Hill and Home
215. CCXII. The Return of the Conqueror
216. CCXIII. Mark Twain—General Spokesman
217. CCXIV. Mark Twain and the Missionaries
218. CCXV. Summer at “the Lair”
219. CCXVI. Riverdale—A Yale Degree
220. CCXVII. Mark Twain in Politics
221. CCXVIII. New Interests and Investments
222. CCXIX. Yachting and Theology
223. CCXX. Mark Twain and the Philippines
224. CCXXI. The Return of the Native
225. CCXXII. A Prophet Honored in His Country
226. CCXXIII. At York Harbor
227. CCXXIV. The Sixty-Seventh Birthday Dinner
228. CCXXV. Christian Science Controversies
229. CCXXVI. “Was It Heaven? Or Hell?”
230. CCXXVII. The Second Riverdale Winter
231. CCXXVIII. Proffered Honors
232. CCXXXIX. The Last Summer at Elmira
233. CCXXX. The Return to Florence
234. CCXXXI. The Close of a Beautiful Life
235. CCXXXII. The Sad Journey Home
236. CCXXXIII. Beginning Another Home
237. CCXXXIV. Life at 21 Fifth Avenue
238. CCXXXV. A Summer in New Hampshire
239. CCXXXVI. At Pier 70
240. CCXXXVII. Aftermath
241. CCXXXVIII. The Writer Meets Mark Twain
242. CCXXXIX. Working with Mark Twain
243. CCXL. The Definition of a Gentleman
244. CCXLI. Gorky, Howells, and Mark Twain
245. CCXLII. Mark Twain's Good-by to the Platform
246. CCXLIII. An Investment in Redding
247. CCXLIV. Traits and Philosophies
248. CCXLV. In the Day's Round
249. CCXLVI. The Second Summer at Dublin
250. CCXLVI. Dublin, Continued
251. CCXLVIII. “What Is Man?” and the Autobiography
252. CCXLIX. Billiards
253. CCL. Philosophy and Pessimism
254. CCLI. A Lobbying Expedition
255. CCLII. Theology and Evolution
256. CCLIII. An Evening with Helen Keller
257. CCLIV. Billiard-Room Notes
258. CCLV. Further Personalities
259. CCLVI. Honors from Oxford
260. CCLVII. A True English Welcome
261. CCLVIII. Doctor of Literature, Oxford
262. CCLIX. London Social Honors
263. CCLX. Matters Psychic and Otherwise
264. CCLXI. Minor Events and Diversions
265. CCLXII. From Mark TWAIN's Mail
266. CCLXIII. Some Literary Luncheons
267. CCLXIV. “Captain Stormfield” in Print
268. CCLXV. Lotos Club Honors
269. CCLXVI. A Winter in Bermuda
270. CCLXVII. Views and Addresses
271. CCLXVIII. Redding
272. CCLXIX. First Days at Stormfield
273. CCLXX. The Aldrich Memorial
274. CCLXXI. Death of “Sam” Moffett
275. CCLXXII. Stormfield Adventures
276. CCLXXIII. Stormfield Philosophies
277. CCLXIV. Citizen and Farmer
278. CCLXV. A Mantel and a Baby Elephant
279. CCLXXVI. Shakespeare-Bacon Talk
280. CCLXXVII. “Is Shakespeare Dead?”
281. CCLXXVIII. The Death of Henry Rogers
282. CCLXXIX. An Extension of Copyright
283. CCLXXX. A Warning
284. CCLXXXI. The Last Summer at Stormfield
285. CCLXXXII. Personal Memoranda
286. CCLXXXIII. Astronomy and Dreams
287. CCLXXXIV. A Library Concert
288. CCLXXXV. A Wedding at Stormfield
289. CCLXXXVI. Autumn Days
290. CCLXXVII. Mark Twain's Reading
291. CCLXXXVIII. A Bermuda Birthday
292. CCLXXXIX. The Death of Jean
293. CCXC. The Return to Bermuda
294. CCXCI. Letters from Bermuda
295. CCXCII. The Voyage Home
296. CCXCIII. The Return to the Invisible
297. CCXCIV. The Last Rites
298. CCXCV. Mark Twain's Religion
299. CCXCVI. Postscript
300. Appendix a
301. Appendix B
302. Appendix C
303. Appendix D
304. Notice of Mark Twain's Lecture
305. Appendix E
306. III. From “a Strange Dream”
307. Appendix F
308. Appendix G
309. Appendix H
310. Appendix I. Mark Twain's Championship of Thomas K. Beecher
311. Appendix J
312. Appendix K
313. Appendix L. About London
314. Appendix M
315. Appendix N
316. Circular to American Authors and Publishers
317. II. Communications supposed to have been written by the Tsar of Russia
318. Appendix O
319. Appendix P
320. Appendix Q
321. Appendix R
322. Appendix S
323. Appendix T
324. Appendix U
325. Appendix V. Selections from an Unfinished Book, “3,000 Years Among the
326. Appendix W
327. Notes for the Jumping Frog story; Angel's Camp, February. Sketches etc.,

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