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Contents

Prologue

1: "Something at Once Awful and Sublime" (1835-39)

2: "The White Town, Drowsing..." (1839)

3: Of Words and the Word (1840-42)

4: The Hannibal Decade (1843-53)

5: Apprentice (1848-51)

6: Rambler (1852-53)

7: "So Far from Home..." (1853-56)

8: The Language of Water (1856-58)

9: Ranger (1858-61)

10: Washoe (1861-62)

11: A Journalistic Counterculture (1862-63)

12: "Mark Twain -- More of Him" (1863)

13: Code Duello (1863-64)

14: A Villainous Backwoods Sketch (1864-65)

15: "...And I Began to Talk" (1865-66)

16: On the Road (1866-67)

17: Back East (1867)

18: "move -- move -- Move!" (1867)

19: Pilgrims and Sinners (1867)

20: In the Thrall of Mother Bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)

21: "A Work Humorously Inclined..." (February-July 1868)

22: The Girl in the Miniature (July 1868-October 1868)

23: American Vandal (October-December 1868)

24: "Quite Worthy of the Best" (1869)

25: Fairyland (1870)

26: "My Hated Nom de Plume..." (1871)

27: Sociable Jimmy (1871-72)

28: The Lion of London (1872-73)

29: Gilded (1873-74)

30: Quarry Farm and Nook Farm (1874-75)

31: The Man in the Moon (1875)

32: "It Befell Yt One Did Breake Wind..." (1876)

33: God's Fool (1877)

34: Abroad Again (1878-79)

35: "A Personal Hatred for Humbug" (1880)

36: "A Powerful Good Time" (1881-82)

37: "All Right, Then..." (1882-83)

38: The American Novel (1884-85)

39: Roll Over, Lord Byron (1886-87)

40: "I Have Fed So Full on Sorrows..." (1887-90)

41: "We Are Skimming Along Like Paupers..." (1891-June 1893)

42: Savior (1893-94)

43: Thunder-Stroke (1895-96)

44: Exile and Return (1896-1900)

45: Sitting in Darkness (1900-1905)

Chapter the Last

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index