Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad

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                    A TRAMP ABROAD

                     By Mark Twain
                  (Samuel L. Clemens)

                First published in 1880

Chapter I. [The Knighted Knave of Bergen]
Chapter II. Heidelberg [Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg]
Chapter III. Baker's Bluejay Yarn [What Stumped the Blue Jays]
Chapter IV. Student Life [The Laborious Beer King]
Chapter V. At the Students' Dueling-Ground [Dueling by Wholesale]
Chapter VI. [A Sport that Sometimes Kills]
Chapter VII. [How Bismark Fought]
Chapter VIII. The Great French Duel [I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel]
Chapter IX. [What the Beautiful Maiden Said]
Chapter X. [How Wagner Operas Bang Along]
Chapter XI. [I Paint a "Turner"]
Chapter XII. [What the Wives Saved]
Chapter XIII. [My Long Crawl in the Dark]
Chapter XIV. [Rafting Down the Neckar]
Chapter XV. Down the River [Charming Waterside Pictures]
Chapter XVI. An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei]
Chapter XVII. [Why Germans Wear Spectacles]
Chapter XVIII. [The Kindly Courtesy of Germans]
Chapter XIX. [The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg]
Chapter XX. [My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug]
Chapter XXI. [Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans]
Chapter XXII. [The Black Forest and Its Treasures]
Chapter XXIII. [Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton]
Chapter XXIV. [I Protect the Empress of Germany]
Chapter XXV. [Hunted by the Little Chamois]
Chapter XXVI. [The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock]
Chapter XXVII. [I Spare an Awful Bore]
Chapter XXVIII. [The Jodel and Its Native Wilds]
Chapter XXIX. [Looking West for Sunrise]
Chapter XXX. [Harris Climbs Mountains for Me]
Chapter XXXI. [Alp-scaling by Carriage]
Chapter XXXII. [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano]
Chapter XXXIII. [We Climb Far--by Buggy]
Chapter XXXIV. [The World's Highest Pig Farm]
Chapter XXXV. [Swindling the Coroner]
Chapter XXXVI. [The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]
Chapter XXXVII. [Our Imposing Column Starts Upward]
Chapter XXXVIII. [I Conquer the Gorner Grat]
Chapter XXXIX. [We Travel by Glacier]
Chapter XL. [Piteous Relics at Chamonix]
Chapter XLI. [The Fearful Disaster of 1865]
Chapter XLII. [Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon]
Chapter XLIII. [My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]
Chapter XLIV. [I Scale Mont Blanc--by Telescope]
Chapter XLV. A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives [Perished at the Verge of Safety]
Chapter XLVI. [Meeting a Hog on a Precipice]
Chapter XLVII. [Queer European Manners]
Chapter XLVIII. [Beauty of Women--and of Old Masters]
Chapter XLIX. [Hanged with a Golden Rope]
Chapter L. [Titian Bad and Titian Good]

Nothing gives such weight and dignity to a book as an Appendix.
-- HERODOTUS.

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad

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