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Publication Date: September 16, 1967 | Series: Perennial Library

A masterpiece collection of great literature, The Great Short Works of Mark Twain belongs on every bookshelf, featuring classics such as Old Times on the Mississippi, The Mysterious Stranger, The Jumping Frog, and more.

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Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Often called America's greatest satirist, he is best known for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Born in 1835, Twain died in 1910.

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Perennial (September 16, 1967)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060830751
ISBN-13: 978-0060830755
Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces

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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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First Sentence:
When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Read the first page

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Father Peter, New Orleans, United States, Father Adolf, Moral Sense, Person Sitting, New York, Mississippi River, The Mysterious Stranger, The Recent Carnival of Crime, Corrupted Hadleyburg, Jack Halliday, Jim Blaine, Paul Jones, American Board, Frau Brandt, Hat Island, Jim Smiley, Secret Supplications of the Heart, Solomon Isaacs, Wilhelm Meidling, Actual Thing, Daniel Webster, Lower Mississippi, Master of the Game

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The Jumping Frog (Dover Humor) by Mark Twain on 5 pages
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The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) by Mark Twain on 4 pages
Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain on 4 pages
Innocents Abroad (Writings of Mark Twain, Parts 1 and 2, Volumes 1 and 2) by Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter

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The Mark Twain Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by J.R. LeMaster on page 671

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