v. 1. The weather in this book ; Opening remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; A short note from the editor ; "After" Jenkins ; The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; The innocents abroad ; The undertaker's chat ; The danger of lying in bed ; Lionizing murderers ; A true story repeated word for word as I heard it ; An encounter with an interviewer ; About barbers ; The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut ; The adventures of Tom Sawyer ; The journals of Germany ; The prince and the pauper ; On the decay of the art of lying ; The adventures of Huckleberry Finn ; A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court ; The private history of a campaign that failed ; The 41,000,000 bank note ; Playing courier ; Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg

v. 2. A burlesque biography

The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

The comedy those extraordinary twins

The awful German language

Life on the Mississippi

A medieval romance

Extracts from Adam's diary

Eve's diary

Roughing it

How to tell a story

A curious dream

My late senatorial secretaryship

A mysterious visit

Journalism in Tennessee

A visit to Niagara

The experiences of the McWilliamses with membranous croup

Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning

The stolen white elephant

Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany

Some rambling notes of an idle excursion

Travelling with a reformer

The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton

The 30,000 bequest

Curing a cold

Disgraceful persecution of a boy

The canvasser's tale

At the appetite-cure

Petition to Congress.