Preface

Name: Sketches New and Old - Preface
Author: Mark Twain

I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has 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 which I need not specify): not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemed instructive.

HARTFORD, 1875.
MARK TWAIN.

Contents:

Related Resources

None available for this document.

Download Options

Title: Sketches New and Old

Select an option:

*Note: A download may not start for up to 60 seconds.

Email Options

Title: Sketches New and Old

Select an option:

Email addres:

*Note: It may take up to 60 seconds for for the email to be generated.

Chicago: Mark Twain, "Preface," Sketches New and Old, trans. Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 in Sketches New and Old (London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1920), Original Sources, accessed July 2, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5S9CL1ICXCUXTZD.

MLA: Twain, Mark. "Preface." Sketches New and Old, translted by Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928, in Sketches New and Old, London, Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1920, Original Sources. 2 Jul. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5S9CL1ICXCUXTZD.

Harvard: Twain, M, 'Preface' in Sketches New and Old, trans. . cited in 1920, Sketches New and Old, Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, London. Original Sources, retrieved 2 July 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5S9CL1ICXCUXTZD.