Jonathan Slick of Weathersfield, Connecticut, comes to New York and writes home in thick Yankee dialect about the city’s fashionable people: parties, shops, the opera, dandies and belles, and the pretensions of those who look down on working girls. His innocence makes the satire bite.
A popular comic book of the 1840s, an early example of the Yankee-dialect humour that Twain inherited. Download the free EPUB.