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A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired... Read Full Overview

Composed between 1863 and 1875, these sixty-three often outrageous sketches prove indispensable to our understanding of Twain during thirteen quite amazing years in American history.

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our... Read Full Overview

Mark Twain's Sketches, new and old (1887). This book, "Mark Twain's Sketches new and old", by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is a replication of a book originally published before 1887. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close... Read Full Overview

Sketches new and old (1903). This book, "Sketches new and old", by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is a replication of a book originally published before 1903. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview

I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before (such as "Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls," the "Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the French," the "Membranous Croup" sketch, and many others which... Read Full Overview

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for... Read Full Overview