Sketches New and Old
by Mark Twain
Publisher: The American Publishing Company 1882
ISBN/ASIN: 1116303434
Description:
The author scattered through this volume a mass of matter which had never been in print before, such as "Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls," the "Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the French," the "Membranous Croup" sketch, and many others.
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