For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.
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Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”
Justin Kaplan is an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Justin Kaplan is an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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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 book is a great introduction to the greatest American storyteller of all time. I was fortunate enough to purchase this book when I was a teenager and discovered, for myself, how great of a storyteller Mr. Twain truly was. These stories take us back to a much simpler time of the American Experience in a way that only he can spin. This stories will make you laugh, cry, and grin all at the same time. This paperback edition is small and fits great into a backpack making it a great traveling companion. Enjoy.....
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Mark Twain's short stories are an American treasure. What I like about Mark Twain is that he is very good at capturing the unique dialect of the individuals within his stories. He was an acute observer of human nature -- as any great story teller is -- and his works are timeless. Every American should read Mark Twain.
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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)
great beef contract, old sledge, agricultural paper, jumping frog, good little boy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Marse Tom, Buffalo Bill, Flint Buckner, San Francisco, Ham Sandwich, United States, Soldier Boy, Aunt Susan, General Alison, New Jersey, George Benton, Seventh Cavalry, Buck Fanshaw, Fetlock Jones, Sherlock Holmes, Commodore Vanderbilt, Lord General, Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Aunt Hannah, Niagara Falls, Archy Stillman, Edward Mills, First Lord, Horace Greeley New!
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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)
great beef contract, old sledge, agricultural paper, jumping frog, good little boy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Marse Tom, Buffalo Bill, Flint Buckner, San Francisco, Ham Sandwich, United States, Soldier Boy, Aunt Susan, General Alison, New Jersey, George Benton, Seventh Cavalry, Buck Fanshaw, Fetlock Jones, Sherlock Holmes, Commodore Vanderbilt, Lord General, Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Aunt Hannah, Niagara Falls, Archy Stillman, Edward Mills, First Lord, Horace Greeley New!
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- The Jumping Frog (Dover Humor) by Mark Twain on 5 pages
- Huckleberry Finn (Macmillan Readers) by Twain in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Roughing It (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Huck Finn by TWAIN in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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