Complete Mark Twain Collection (300+ works) (Illustrated) [Kindle Edition]

Mark Twain (Author), Bob Henry (Illustrator)

Book Description

The entire Mark Twain anthology with over 300 books and story collections. See the sample for the complete and navigable table of contents. Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.

CONTENTS

THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTO-BIOGRAPHY
FIRST ROMANCE.
ROUGHING IT
THE GILDED AGE (with Charles Dudley Warner)
SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR AND OTHER WHIMSICAL SKETCHES
1601--CONVERSATION AT THE SOCIAL FIRESIDE OF THE TUDORS
THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON AND OTHER STORIES
SOME RAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSION
THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT
A TRAMP ABROAD
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY
IN DEFENSE OF HARRIET SHELLEY
FENNIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES
ESSAYS ON PAUL BOURGET
TOM SAWYER ABROAD
THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON
THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC
TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR, A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD
THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES
WHAT IS MAN AND OTHER ESSAYS
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES
A DOUBLE BARRELED DETECTIVE
THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER STORIES
THE $30,000 BEQUEST
A DOG'S TALE
A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY
HOW TO TELL A STORY
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY
EVE'S DIARY
A HORSE'S TALE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN
GOLDSMITH'S FRIEND ABROAD AGAIN
HOW TO TELL A STORY
THE WOUNDED SOLDIER
THE GOLDEN ARM
MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN
THE INVALIDS STORY
MARK TWAIN'S SPEECHES
MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS 1853-1910

and more....

Product Details

• File Size: 11368 KB
• Print Length: 8430 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002AQSPFY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,165 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #14 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Anthologies & Literary Collections > Short Stories
  • #37 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Anthologies
  • #38 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

402 of 404 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to navigate, easy to read, amazingly complete content for the price August 3, 2010

By Todd V. Leone

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

First I want to address some of the negative comments made by other reviews - comments that don't prove to be true in my experience.

1. Table of Contents - This edition, as advertised, does come with a fully functional interactive Table of Contents. The only problem - an extremely minor one that isn't uncommon with Kindle books - is that "Table of Contents" is grayed out on the Kindle's "Go To" menu. As I've discovered before, that doesn't mean there isn't an interactive Table of Contents. In this case, all you have to do to find it is Go to _Cover_, press "Next Page" just once and the Table of Contents appears - on the second screen in the book. Once I found it, I bookmarked it for future use. Cursoring through the Table of Contents using the 5-way control produced the small "pointing finger" icon and once the finger is pointing at the desired article, pressing down on the 5-way immediately takes me right to the very article. The T of C is lengthy, but it's text searchable.

2. The Font - No way is the font Courier, which is a monospace font. In fact, it's the very same proportionally spaced font used for the vast majority of books I've read on Kindle to date (over 200). It's the font that the Oxford American Dictionary native to the Kindle 2 uses. I find that font to be perfectly pleasant to read and I can't imagine why anyone would object to it.

3. Extra White Space Between Paragraphs - Yes, there seems to be one extra line of white space between paragraphs. It's nothing I haven't seen before reading books on the Kindle. At worst, it means that, in the course of reading a book, I might have to press the "Next Page" button more times than if there were only one line of white space between paragraphs. So far, my button-pushing finger doesn't seem to be damaged on account of it. In fact, I simply think it's a typesetting consideration or perhaps due to optical scanning of a print edition. I've seen So what? What's an extra line of white space between paragraphs? It doesn't interfere with reading in the least bit.

4. Searching the Text - At first, when I tried to search for a given text string, I received that error message saying that the book was not yet indexed and to try later. I've run into that before with a book on Kindle when I've opened it for the first time. But, after reading a while, after turning the pages a number of times, that problem cleared up with this book - as it has with other books in the past. I think that, with some books, the Kindle isn't immediately synchronized to the searchable text, but at some point, synchronization occurs and, once it does, there are no further problems. So, read for a bit, and you'll find everything is copacetic when it comes to searching the text.

5. Omissions of Certain Twain Works - Yes, "Letters from the Earth" is missing from this "complete" omnibus edition. The fact is, Twain's one surviving daughter, Clara Clemens, who controlled her father's literary estate until her death in 1962 withheld publication, changing her mind in 1960 so allow its publication only after her death. So it was first published in 1962 and will remain under copyright until 2032 at the earliest, so it could not be included in this omnibus edition. Royalties would have to be paid to include it and that's just not possible for something that sells for $2.99 per copy.

My one complaint is that there are typographical errors of the sort that occur when a print edition is optically scanned to electronic format. The percentage of those errors is very small and, again, for $2.99, I'm willing to overlook those errors. It's generally not too hard to figure out from context what the correct word should be - "the" instead of "he," for example, or "shoe" instead of "shot." That's the sort of random spelling error I've noticed in this publication. Considering that there are thousands of pages of Mark Twain in this volume for all of $2.99, however, I'm inclined not to complain about the occasional typographical error -- they're relative few and pretty far between.

In sum, the book's an incredible bargain, and it's very functional with its interactive Table of Contents (once you find it on the second screen), very readable with a perfectly decent proportionally spaced font, serviceably formatted as to paragraphs, fully searchable as to text, pretty much complete as to content, and amazingly well priced at $2.99.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Table of Contents is easy to use if you know how. September 7, 2010

By Lloyd S. Cheairs

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Nice book! Well worth the cost. As to the Table of Contents, use the "Go To Cover" command, then page forward. The first pages after the cover are the Table of Contents. When the Kindle software opens this book it goes the the first of Mark Twain's works, past the Table of Contents. As I said just remember the "Go To Cover", then step forward.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND THE ACTIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS December 13, 2010

By J. Fambrough

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Alright, many have purchased this collection and said that the active table of contents doesn't work. This isn't exactly true. If you go into the menu portion of your kindle and try to use the Kindle table of contents via the " Go To" function then yes the table of contents is grayed out but if you click on the cover and go through the listing of books and click on individual books then it will take you directly to the book you clicked on. This is just as good to me and so i don't want some possible readers of this collection to miss out just because others didn't take the time to really delve into this issue. Its a great collection and no im not this guys best friend or anything like that.

More About the Author

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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