The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain
by Paine

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Preface

This is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from the greatest universities of America and Europe; to be sought by statesmen and kings; to be loved and honored by all men in all lands, and mourned by them when he died. It is the story of one of the world’s very great men–the story of Mark Twain.

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Preface • I. The Family of John Clemens • II. The New Home, and Uncle John Quarles’s Farm • IV. Education Out of School • V. Tom Sawyer and His Band • VI. Closing School-Days • VII. The Apprentice • VIII. Orion’s Paper • IX. The Open Road • X. A Wind of Chance • XI. The Long Way to the Amazon • XII. Renewing an Old Ambition • XIII. Learning the River • XIV. River Days • XV. The Wreck of the “Pennsylvania” • XVI. The Pilot • XVII. The End of Piloting • XVIII. The Soldier • XIX. The Pioneer • XX. The Miner • XXI. The Territorial Enterprise • XXII. “Mark Twain” • XXIII. Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco • XXIV. The Discovery of “The Jumping Frog” • XXV. Hawaii and Anson Burlingame • XXVI. Mark Twain, Lecturer • XXVII. An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again • XXVIII. Olivia Langdon. Work on the “Innocents” • XXIX. The Visit to Elmira and Its Consequences • XXX. The New Book and a Wedding • XXXI. Mark Twain in Buffalo • XXXII. At Work on “Roughing It” • XXXIII. In England • XXXIV. A New Book and New English Triumphs • XXXV. Beginning “Tom Sawyer” • XXXVI. The New Home • XXXVII. “Old Times,” “Sketches,” And “Tom Sawyer” • XXXVIII. Home Pictures • XXXIX. Tramping Abroad • XL. “The Prince and the Pauper” • XLI. General Grant at Hartford • XLII. Many Investments • XLIII. Back to the River, With Bixby • XLIV. A Reading-Tour With Cable • XLV. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” • XLVI. Publisher to General Grant • XLVII. The High-Tide of Fortune • XLVIII. Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things • XLIX. Kipling at Elmira. Elsie Leslie. The “Yankee” • L. The Machine. Good-By to Hartford. “Joan” Is Begun • LI. The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow • LII. European Economies • LIII. Mark Twain Pays His Debts • LIV. Return After Exile • LV. A Prophet At Home • LVI. Honored by Missouri • LVII. The Close of a Beautiful Life • LVIII. Mark Twain at Seventy • LIX. Mark Twain Arranges for His Biography • LX. Working With Mark Twain • LXI. Dictations at Dublin, N. H. • LXII. A New Era of Billiards • LXIII. Living With Mark Twain • LXIV. A Degree From Oxford • LXV. The Removal to Redding • LXVI. Life at Stormfield • LXVII. The Death of Jean • LXVIII. Days in Bermuda • LXIX. The Return to Redding • LXX. The Close of a Great Life

The Boys’ Life of Mark Twainby Paine

Preface

The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain
by Paine