The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain. Марк Твен

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      The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain

      

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Table of Contents

       HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHER ESSAYS

       HOW TO TELL A STORY

       THE WOUNDED SOLDIER.

       THE GOLDEN ARM.

       MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN

       THE INVALID’S STORY

       A SALUTATION SPEECH FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTIETH

       THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, UPDATED

       TO THE PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS

       PRIVATE HISTORY OF THE “JUMPING FROG” STORY

       FENIMORE COOPER’S LITERARY OFFENCES

       RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR

       STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA

       CONCERNING THE JEWS

       COMMENTS ON THE MORO MASSACRE

       CARL SCHURZ, PILOT

       TAMING THE BICYCLE

       TO MY MISSIONARY CRITICS

       KING LEOPOLD’S SOLILOQUY

       THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE CONGO STATE.

       IN DEFENSE OF HARRIET SHELLEY

       ESSAYS ON PAUL BOURGET

       WHAT IS MAN?

       THE DEATH OF JEAN

       THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE

       HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK

       THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION

       A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY

       SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY

       AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER

       WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

       ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT

       ON GIRLS

       A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET

       AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY

       CONCERNING TOBACCO

       THE BEE

       IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?

       THE UNITED STATES OF LYNCHERDOM

       LETTERS FROM THE EARTH

       HOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHER ESSAYS

      HOW TO TELL A STORY

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      The Humorous Story an American Development. — Its Difference

      from Comic and Witty Stories.

      I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years.

      There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.

      The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story bubbles gently along, the others burst.

      The humorous story is strictly a work of art — high and delicate art — and only an artist can tell it; but no art is necessary in telling the comic and the witty story; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous story — understand, I mean by word of mouth, not print — was created in America, and has remained at home.

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