Great Short Works of Mark Twain

Name: Great Short Works of Mark Twain
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ISBN: 9780060727864

ISBN-10: 0060727861

ISBN-13: 9780060727864

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Authors: Mark Twain, Mark Twain

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Selected works of humour and criticism by a revered American master. Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of scepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still taught to anyone who attends school and is considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Twain's shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled style and bite. In a review that's less than kind to the writing of James Fenimore Cooper, Twain writes: "Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig.…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



A Note on the Text


Old Times on the Mississippi (The Atlantic Monthly, Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June, and August, 1875)


The Jumping Frog (Sketches, New and Old)


The Great Landslide Case (Roughing It)


Jim Blaine and His Grandfather's Ram (Roughing It)


A True Story (Sketches, New and Old)


Accident Insurance-Etc. (Mark Twain's Speeches)


The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (Tom Sawyer Abroad)


The Story of a Speech (Mark Twain's Speeches)


Jim Baker's Bluejay (A Tramp Abroad)


The Private History of a Campaign that Failed (American Claimant)


Letter to the Earth (Letters from the Earth)


Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (In Defense of Harriet Shelley)


How to Tell a Story (The $30,000 Bequest)


Corn-Pone Opinions (Europe and Elsewhere)


The United States of Lyncherdom (Europe and Elsewhere)


To the Person Sitting in Darkness (Europe and Elsewhere)


The War Prayer (Europe and Elsewhere)


The Turning Point of My Life (What Is Man?)


The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg


The Mysterious Stranger


A Chronology


A Bibliography