[Hinman collection]

How to tell a story. In defence of Harriet Shelley. Fenimore Cooper's literary offences. Traveling with a reformer. Private history of the "Jumping frog" story. Mental telegraphy again. What Paul Bourget thinks of us. A little note to M. Paul Bourget. The invalid's story. The captain's story. Stirring times in Austria. Concerning the Jews. From the "London times" of 1904. At the appetite cure. In memoriam. Mark Twain: a biographical sketch.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be. Contains: Tom Sawyer abroad -- Tom Sawyer, detective -- Stolen white elephant -- Some rambling notes of an idle excursion -- Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- About magnanimous-incident literature -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Great revolution in Pitcairn -- On the decay of the art of lying -- Canvasser's tale -- Encounter with an interviewer -- Paris notes -- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany -- Speech on the babies -- Speech on the weather -- Concerning the American language -- Rogers -- Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Map of Paris -- Letter read at a dinner.

Often known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame this is the famous story of Quasimodo and the beautiful Gypsy girl he loves and eventually rescues after she has been wrongly sentenced to hang for murder. Alas it all ends badly. A timeless tale of love, devotion, jealousy and deception.