Albert Bigelow Paine, Twain’s biographer and literary executor, chose these passages and arranged them in the order the books appeared, starting with the sketches of the 1860s and The Innocents Abroad: answers to correspondents, editing an agricultural paper, a storm aboard the Quaker City, Tangier, Venice and Pisa, and onward through the later works.
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