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The Portable Mark Twain (Viking Portable Library) [Paperback]

Mark Twain (Author), Bernard DeVoto (Editor)
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Viking Portable Library March 31, 1977
Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including the often omitted raftsmen passage.

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  • Paperback: 802 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (March 31, 1977)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 014015020X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140150209
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,212,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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This review is from: The Portable Mark Twain (Viking Portable Library) (Paperback)
This anthology contains the text of what is for many the greatest of all American comic novels, " Huckleberry Finn". It also contains a rich selection of material from other works, including what is perhaps the funniest essay in literary criticism ever written , the essay on 'Fenimore Cooper's errors'.
Mark Twain is the great genius of American colloquial speech, the writer who hears America's diverse voices as no one else does. He is also a deeply humane if sharply critical and comic observer of the human drama.
This selection contains some of the best writing of one of America's true classics.
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First Sentence:
"IN COMPLIANCE with the request of a friend of mine who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result." Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cracked his heels, nonnamous letters, quarter twain, nigger cabins, bluff reef, runaway nigger, dey wuz
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Father Peter, Tom Sawyer, Mary Jane, Aunt Sally, Miss Watson, New Orleans, Uncle Silas, Moral Sense, Father Adolf, Huck Finn, Mars Tom, Sir Sagramor, Aunt Polly, Person Sitting, New York, United States, Ben Rogers, Dick Allbright, Miss Sophia, Peter Wilks, Uncle Harvey, Child of Calamity, Royal Nonesuch, Miss Hooker, Mississippi River
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