Mark Twain: a collection of critical essays

Introduction / Henry Nash Smith

Mark Twain's humor / Van Wyck Brooks

Mark Twain : an appreciation / Maurice Le Breton

Roughing it / Kenneth Lynn

The pilot and the passenger / Leo Marx

Tom Sawyer / Walter Blair

A sound heart and a deformed conscience / Henry Nash Smith

From Black magic

and white

in Huckleberry Finn / Daniel G. Hoffman

Huck and Oliver / W.H. Auden

A Connecticut Yankee : the machinery of self-preservation / James M. Cox

As free as any cretur / Leslie Fiedler

The symbols of despair / Bernard DeVoto

The lost America

the despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain / Tony Tanner.