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Sketches New and Old

by Mark TWAIN (1835 - 1910)

01 Chapter 1 Preface & My Watch

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into English, showing how the French translation of his work was "badly flawed." In many of these sketches, Twain shows his talent for outrageous and hilarious inventiveness, often in reaction to current events. (Summary by John Greenman)

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Listen next episodes of Sketches New and Old:
A Curious Pleasure Excursion , A Mysterious Visit , About Barbers , Cannibalism In The Cars , Chapter 10 To Raise Poultry , Chapter 11 Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup , Chapter 12 My First Literary Venture , Chapter 13 How the Author was Sold in Newark , Chapter 14 The Office Bore , Chapter 15 Johnny Greer , Chapter 16 The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract , Chapter 17 The Case of George Fisher , Chapter 18 Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy , Chapter 19 The Judge's "Spirited Woman" , Chapter 2 Political Economy , Chapter 20 Information Wanted , Chapter 21 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part First , Chapter 22 My Late Senatorial Secretaryship , Chapter 22 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part Second , Chapter 23 Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys an Girls -Part Third , Chapter 25 A Fashion Item , Chapter 26 Riley-Newspaper Correspondent , Chapter 27 A Fine Old Man , Chapter 28 Science vs. Luck , Chapter 29 The Late Benjamin Franklin , Chapter 3 The Jumping Frog , Chapter 30 Mr. Bloke's Item , Chapter 31 A Medieval Romance , Chapter 32 Petition Concerning Copyright , Chapter 33 After-Dinner Speech , Chapter 34 Lionizing Murderers , Chapter 35 A New Crime , Chapter 36 A Curious Dream , Chapter 37 A True Story , Chapter 38 The Siamese Twins , Chapter 39 Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London , Chapter 4 Journalism In Tennessee , Chapter 40 A Ghost Story , Chapter 41 The Capitoline Venus , Chapter 42 Speech on Accident Insurance , Chapter 43 John Chinaman in New York , Chapter 44 How I Edited an Agricultural Paper , Chapter 45 The Petrified man , Chapter 46 My Bloody Masacre , Chapter 47 The Undertaker's Chat , Chapter 48 Concerning Chambermaids , Chapter 49 Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man , Chapter 5 The Story of the Bad Little Boy , Chapter 50 "After" Jenkins , Chapter 6 The Story of the Good Little Boy , Chapter 7 A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore , Chapter 8 Niagra , Chapter 9 Answers to Correspondents , Curing a Cold , First Interview With Artemus Ward , History Repeats Itself , Honored as a Curiousity , "Party Cries" in Ireland , Running for Governor , The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation , The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized" , The Scriptural Panoramist , The Widow's Protest