Gathers all sixty of Twains stories, including tall tales, mysteries, sketches, and tales of travel
A volume of 60 satirical, rollicking short tales by the literary master includes such classics as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Diary of Adam and Eve. 12,500 first printing.
Mark Twain, August Nemo. have fought, on the Southern side, and then changed his allegiance before the war was over. This kind of behaviour is more excusable in a boy than in a man, whence the adjustment of the dates.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Twain scholar presents a collection of sixty-six of the author's best short stories, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County," "A Curious Dream," and "Dick Baker's Cat." Reprint.
Number forty-four, the mysterious stranger.
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination.
The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain.
Presents more than twenty short stories by nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain--including "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "How to Tell a Story"--And an essay on the author by Charles Neider.
“More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern.
"To no writer can the term 'American' more justly be applied than to the humorist whose Merry Tales are here presented."-Editor's Note, Merry Tales (1892) Merry Tales (1892) is...
. . . His outrageous humor is everywhere evident throughout this collection."--Nashville Banner This is the first and most complete collection of all 136 humorous sketches and tales that Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), a.k.a.