Excerpts from the Book 'Mark Twain A Biography 1866 1875':

... Sam and Denis and told them to put up their hands. The robbers called each other 'Beauregard' and 'Stonewall Jackson.' Of course Denis's hands went up, ...
... in 'Roughing It', who with his own hands hanged Bill Noakes, after reading him promiscuous chapters from the Bible, was Captain Wakeman. Captain ...
... later, and some even of those might have been spared also some that were added, for that matter but detailed literary criticism is not the province ...
... sufficiently evident. The humorous perception of a thing is a pretty slow growth sometimes, he once remarked. It was about seventeen years before he ...
... and shall write occasionally. Am offered the same berth to-day on the Herald by letter. Shall write Mr. Bent and accept, as soon as I hear from Tribune ...
... at last, through Mrs. Grant, an appointment was made for a Sunday evening when the General would be at home. He was elated with the prospect of an interview ...
... had an audience of two hundred against nearly ten times the number who gathered to hear Mark Twain. The news of this went to Elmira, too. It was in ...
... at this time James T. Fields, its editor. Clemens had been gratified by the Atlantic review, and had called to express his thanks for it. He sat talking ...
... but a good many of them did. In the October number he began a series of letters under the general title of Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again, supposed ...
... months and declared, I see the capabilities of the subject.. But further disasters, even then impending, made continued effort impossible the ...
... the wrong end. It was with the April number (1871) that he concluded his relations with the Galaxy. In a brief valedictory he gave his reasons:. I ...
... universal since then. Few writers of this age would confess to taking their work so seriously as to be at all times unsmiling in it only about as many, ...
... and the actual writing was never begun. There was too much sociability in London for one thing, and then he found that he could not write entertainingly ...
... his word, and so there he is, sure enough-stood up on end.. The reader may regret that there are not more of these entries, and that the book itself ...
... by this time. I am blue and cross and homesick [she wrote]. I suppose what makes me feel the latter is because we are contemplating to stay in London ...
... only heard of it. At all events, it seemed a good one for the character and had been adopted. But behold, the book had been issued but a little while ...
... more enjoyment for the colored members of the household than it did for Mark Twain. Lewis had some fowls, and among them was a particularly pestiferous ...
... Remington makers wrote him for a recommendation of the machine, he replied that he had entirely stopped using it. The typewriter was not perfect in those ...
... Then he opened it and showed that he had correctly given its contents, which were the same in all essential details as those of his own letter, not ...
... DAYS. It was about this period that Mark Twain began to exhibit openly his more serious side that is to say his advocacy of public reforms. His paper ...