Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Vol. 1: 1852-1890 (Library of America) [Hardcover]

Mark Twain (Author), Louis J. Budd (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1992

A collection of Mark Twain's early writings begins with his first published work at age sixteen and includes a dazzlingly varied array of tall tales, short stories, essays, anecdotes, hoaxes, speeches, philosophies, fables, satires, and maxims.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1076 pages
• Publisher: Library of America; First Printing edition (October 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940450364
• ISBN-13: 978-0940450363
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #19 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > 19th Century

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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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mark Twain means "Deep Enough", July 17, 2001

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This review is from: Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Vol. 1: 1852-1890 (Library of America) (Hardcover)

This book is a joy to read. Though not all the short works contained within are "classics", you will find satire, history, editorials, mischief, slices-of-life, without knowing by the title of any given work what you'll really be getting in the pages that follow (all part of Twain's desire to "stir the pot" and "zing" his readers)... As you will see from this book, Twain is not just a writer of the Mississippi River, but of Washington D.C., the Western U.S., Saloons, Trains, Parades, and much more. You won't be sorry with this high quality book.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mark Twain at his best, July 14, 2000

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This review is from: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays: 2-volume set (Library of America) (Hardcover)

Mark Twain is well known for his Mississippi Novels and Historical Romances but it's on his Tales and Sketches where you can find the commical genious in him. It's in my opinion that it's an age span wich makes you like the most Tom Sawyer (8-12), The Prince and the Pauper (13-16) or The Diary of Adam and Eve (18-) and yet, in his complete tales you may find contents of interest for all kinds of readers. And you will never find a better edition than the one that Library of America has to offer. Hardcover, cloth wrapping and alk. paper makes the reading an extra pleasure over the one Mark Teain already gives you. Love Twain and love the edition.

5.0 out of 5 stars Political incorrectness at its best, November 6, 2010

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This review is from: Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Vol. 1: 1852-1890 (Library of America) (Hardcover)

Many of these stories, essay, etc., are laugh out loud funny. I particularly like the one about the Siamese twins. And who else but Mark Twain could make the deaths of children funny, in Post-Mortem Poetry? If you're looking for a complete short stories of Mark Twain you'll find this is not it. Some of them are missing.