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List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress September 1869; Chapter 2 Unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 3 Unsigned review, Packard’s Monthly; Chapter 4 Unsigned review, Buffalo Express; Chapter 5 William Dean Howells: unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 6 ‘Tom Folio’: review, Boston Daily Evening Transcript; Chapter 7 Bret Harte: unsigned review, Overland Monthly; Chapter 8 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 9 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 10 William Ward: ‘American Humorists’, Macon (Mississippi) Beacon; Part 2 Roughing It or The Innocents at Home February 1872; Chapter 11 Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian; Chapter 12 William Dean Howells: unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 13 Unsigned review, Overland Monthly; Part 3 Sketches, New and Old July 1875; Chapter 14 William Dean Howells: unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 15 Matthew Freke Turner: ‘Artemus Ward and the Humourists of America’, New Quarterly Magazine; Part 4 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876; Chapter 16 William Dean Howells: unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 17 Moncure D. Conway: unsigned review, London Examiner; Chapter 18 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 19 Unsigned review, London Times; Chapter 20 Unsigned review, New York Times; Part 5 A Tramp Abroad March 1880; Chapter 21 William Ernest Henley: unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 22 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 23 William Dean Howells: unsigned review, Atlantic; Part 6 The Prince and the Pauper December 1881; Chapter 24 H. H. Boyesen: unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 25 E. Purcell: review, Academy; Chapter 26 Unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 27 Unsigned review, Century Magazine; Chapter 28 John Nichol on Mark Twain; Chapter 29 William Dean Howells: ‘Mark Twain’, Century Magazine; Chapter 30 Thomas Sergeant Perry: ‘An American on American Humour’, St. James’s Gazette; Part 7 Life on the Mississippi May 1883; Chapter 31 Lafcadio Hearn: review, New Orleans Times-Democrat; Chapter 3
Summary
Mark Twain (1835-1910). Leading American writer. Writings include: The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
