This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow humorist Eugene Field experienced a wide variety of people, places and things together and author Henry Fischer brings them together here, for the first time. - Summary by John Greenman
Chapters
1 Editor's Note 7 min 2 Author's Preface 12 min 3 How Mark Would Safeguard England 13 min 4 Mark Philosophized on Willie 2 min 5 Mark - Regicide 4 min 6 The Funniest Speech Mark Ever Gave 10 min 7 Monarchical Atavism 2 min 8 Democratic Mark and Austrian Aristocracy 3 min 9 Phil Sheridan's Friend 4 min 10 "Elizabeth was a He", said Mark 14 min 11 Mark, the Sleight-of-hand Man 3 min 12 Mark and the Imperial Mistress 3 min 13 Mark on Lynch Law 5 min 14 Recollections of King Charles and Grant 3 min 15 Mark Missed Gallows-land 4 min 16 Think of Her Sorrow 2 min 17 Breaking the News Gently 3 min 18 Dukes and Unborn Car Horses 1 min 19 Pa Used to Be a Terrible Man 1 min 20 Mark on the Berlin Cops 5 min 21 The Sausage Room 5 min 22 Mark's Glimpse of Schopenhauer 15 min 23 "Murderer" Blücher in Oxford 3 min 24 Mark's Human Side 3 min 25 An Australian Surprise 3 min 26 Mark in France and Italy 3 min 27 Why Mark Wouldn't Like to Die Abroad 4 min 28 The Left Hand Didn't Know 1 min 29 American Humorists 1 min 30 Telepathy or Suggestion 3 min 31 Trying to Be Serious Didn't Work 2 min 32 Assorted Beauties 2 min 33 Mark's Children Knew Him 2 min 34 Mark, Dogs, Dagoes, and Cats 2 min 35 The Tragedy of Genius 2 min 36 Kilties and the Lassie 3 min 37 A Wise Provision of Providence 2 min 38 The Awful German Language 2 min 39 Artist or Photographer 2 min 40 Mark Interviewed the Barber about Harry Thaw 5 min 41 His Portrait, a Mirror 2 min 42 Mark, Bismarck, Lincoln, and Darwin 7 min 43 Mark at the Stock Exchange, Vienna 1 min 44 Mark and the Prussian Lieutenant 3 min 45 Mark Studies the Costermonger Language 2 min 46 That Beautiful Funeral 2 min 47 Ada's Beast of a Man 2 min 48 Jealousy in Lowland 2 min 49 The Troubles of Liz 2 min 50 The French Madame 6 min 51 The Great Disappointment 5 min 52 Rheumatism and Prodding 2 min 53 On Literary Friendships 2 min 54 Bayard Taylor's German 2 min 55 Genius in Extremis 4 min 56 What May Happen to You after You Are Dead 5 min 57 Kings in Their Birthday Suits 1 min 58 Mark on Lincoln's Humanity 6 min 59 An English Lover of Kings and a Hater 7 min 60 Mark Got Arrested in Berlin 6 min 61 Books that Weren't Written 5 min 62 Mark Enjoyed Other Humorists 2 min 63 Mark and the English Hack-writer 3 min 64 Mark Thought Joan of Arc Was Slandered 4 min 65 Running Amuck, Almost 1 min 66 Mark's Idiomatic Gems 1 min 67 Mark and the Girls that Love a Lord 8 min 68 Mark's Martyrdom 3 min 69 Slang Not in Mark's Dictionary 3 min 70 Mark "No Gentleman" 2 min 71 Mark, Poetry, and Art 2 min 72 Mark Sheds Light on English History 7 min 73 Mark Explains Dean Swift 4 min 74 Mark in Tragedy and Comedy 8 min 75 Ambition Is a Jade that More Than One Man Can Ride 4 min 76 Mark as a Translator 4 min 77 Mark in England 3 min 78 Why Mark Was Uncomfortable in the King of Sweden's Presence 2 min 79 Mark's Idea of High Art 4 min 80 Mark Meets King Leopold, Almost 3 min 81 Sizing Up of Aristocracy by Mark 5 min 82 The Bald-headed Woman 2 min 83 When a Publisher Dines and Wines You 6 min 84 Mark in Politics 1 min 85 Mark on "Royal Honors" 5 min 86 American Women the Prettiest 2 min 87 Where Tay Pay Isn't Tay Pay 1 min 88 The Man Who Didn't Get Used to Hanging 9 min 89 Stray Sayings of Mark 4 min 90 Eugene Field and His Troubles in Chicago 6 min 91 More of Eugene Field's Trials in London 5 min 92 Gene, a "Success of Curiosity" 4 min 93 Dire Consequences of American Horseplay 10 min 94 Field's Library of Humor 1 min 95 Those German Professors 2 min 96 Eugene Field and Northern Lore 4 min 97 Little Boy Blue 1 min
