Sketches, new and old /
Mark Twain's sketches, new and old
Mark Twain ; foreward, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, Lee Smith ; afterword, Sherwood Cummings.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- xliii, 320, 37 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
- Oxford Mark Twain .
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. 1996. Works. .
Includes bibliograhical references.
Composed between 1863 and 1875, these sixty-three sketches contain complaints about barbers and office bores; satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government.