- 1Foreword
- 2From “Sketches New and Old” (1865–67)
- 3How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
- 4From “The Innocents Abroad” (1867–68)
- 5The “Quaker City” in a Storm
- 6The Beautiful Stranger
- 7Tangier
- 8American Beauties
- 9An Early Memory
- 10At the Ambrosian Library
- 11Our Need of Repose
- 12Venice
- 13At Pisa
- 14Christian Persuasion
- 15Taking It Out of the Guides
- 16A Surfeit of Art
- 17At Pompeii
- 18Fame
- 19Athens From the Acropolis
- 20Constantinople
- 21Turkish Journalism
- 22The Camel
- 23At Noah’s Tomb
- 24Damascus
- 25At Banias
- 26A Healer in Palestine
- 27The Bible
- 28Galilee at Night
- 29Distance in the East
- 30A Pleasant Incident
- 31Sacred Marvels
- 32At Adam’s Grave
- 33The Wandering Jew
- 34Bedouins
- 35A Smitten Land
- 36The Sphinx
- 37Memories of the Pilgrimage
- 38From “Roughing It”
- 39George Bemis and “The Allen”
- 40The Overland Stage
- 41Morning on the Plains
- 42The Cayote
- 43The Pony Rider
- 44Indian Country
- 45At the Summit of the Rockies
- 46Incidents by the Way
- 47Mormon Beauties
- 48The Alkali Desert
- 49Arrival in Carson City
- 50Lake Tahoe
- 51Selling Out a Mine
- 52Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral
- 53An Abandoned Town
- 54A Hawaiian Temple
- 55A Hawaiian Statesman
- 56Hawaiian Religion
- 57The Crater of Haleakala
- 58From “The Gilded Age” (1873)
- 59Colonel Sellers Lets Himself Out
- 60From “Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1874–5)
- 61Tom Falls in Love
- 62Huck
- 63The Pirates’ Island
- 64Tom Learns to Smoke
- 65From “The Stolen White Elephant” (1878) — Describing an Elephant
- 66From “A Tramp Abroad” (1878–9)
- 67Midnight Entertainment
- 68Foreign Quotations
- 69Reflections on the Ant
- 70Foreign Quotations Again
- 71The Jungfrau
- 72Climbing the Gemmi Pass
- 73Descent of Gemmi Pass
- 74Alp Climbing
- 75The Old Masters
- 76From “Life on the Mississippi” (1874–5)
- 77First Lessons in Piloting
- 78Perplexing Lessons
- 79A Test of Courage
- 80From “The Prince and the Pauper” (1877–80)
- 81The Canty Home
- 82London Bridge
- 83Tom Canty, King
- 84The Little King in Prison
- 85Tom Canty the First
- 86Tom Is Recognized
- 87From “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1876–83)
- 88The Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud
- 89From “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (1886–7)
- 90The Stranger’s History
- 91The Round Table
- 92The Yankee Reflects
- 93Perfect Government
- 94Maids in Distress
- 95A Knight’s Average
- 96Sixth Century Kingdoms
- 97Nature
- 98Conscience
- 99The German Tongue
- 100Government by the People
- 101Prophecy
- 102Hard Work
- 103Still Hope
- 104The Human Race
- 105The King in Slavery
- 106From “Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion” (1877) — What We Saw in…
- 107From “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar” (1892–3)
- 108From “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed” (1885) — The M…
- 109From “The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”
- 110The Fairy Tree
- 111L’Arbre Fée de Bourlemont
- 112Joan Before Rheims
- 113Joan’s Reward
- 114From “Saint Joan of Arc” (1899)
- 115From “Following the Equator” — Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar (18…
- 116Art
- 117Italian Cigars
- 118From “Concerning the Jews” (1898)
- 119The Immortal Race
- 120From “Christian Science” (1898) — The C. S. Healer
- 121From “Italian Without a Master” (1903)
- 122The Charm of Uncertainty
- 123From “Eve’s Diary” (1905)
- 124At Eve’s Grave — William Dean Howells (1905)
- 125Miscellaneous (1905–9)
- 126The Fatality of Sequence
- 127Life’s Turning Point
- 128Close of Seventieth Birthday Speech
- 129The Future Life
- 130Religion
- 131From “The Death of Jean” (1909)
- 132From “One of His Latest Memoranda” (1909) — The Impartial Friend
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