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Loading... The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain. Now collected for the first time. Edited with an introduction by Charles Neide (original 1957; edition 1957)| 2,681 | 15 | 5,812 | 
(4.12) | 21 | For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of his sixty stories is here- ranging from the frontier humor of 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' to the bitter vision of humankind in 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' to the delightful hilarity of 'Is He Living or Is He Dead?' Surging with Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of - in the words of H. L. Mencken - 'the father of our national literature.'… (more) |
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(Introduction by Charles Neider): Not long ago I happened to be reading Mark Twain's Roughing It, when I was piqued by his habit of inserting yarns of pure fiction into a non-fictional work, yarns tossed in just because they were good ones which he had in his head at the time.  In compliance with the request of a good 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. | |
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None ▾Book descriptions For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of his sixty stories is here- ranging from the frontier humor of 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' to the bitter vision of humankind in 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' to the delightful hilarity of 'Is He Living or Is He Dead?' Surging with Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of - in the words of H. L. Mencken - 'the father of our national literature.' ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Collects these stories:
"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"The Story of the Bad Little Boy"
"Cannibalism in the Cars"
"A Day at Niagara"
"Legend of the Capitoline Venus"
"Journalism in Tennessee"
"A Curious Dream"
"The Facts in the Great Beef Contract"
"How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"
"A Medieval Romance"
"My Watch"
"Political Economy"
"Science vs. Luck"
"The Story of the Good Little Boy"
"Buck Fanshaw's Funeral"
"The Story of the Old Ram"
"Tom Quartz"
"A Trial"
"The Trials of Simon Erickson"
"A True Story"
"Exerience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup"
"Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls"
"The Canvasser's Tale"
"The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton"
"Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale"
"The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's"
"Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning"
"What Stumped the Bluejays"
"A Curious Experience"
"An Invalid's Story"
"The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm"
"The Stolen White Elephant"
"A Burning Brand"
"A Dying Man's Confession"
"A Professor's Yarn"
"A Ghost Story"
"Luck"
"Playing Courier"
"The Californian's Tale"
"The Diary of Adam and Eve"
"The Esquimau Maiden's Romance"
"Is He Living or Is He Dead?"
"The £ 1,000,000 Bank-Note"
"Cecil Rhodes and the Shark"
"The Joke that Made Ed's Fortune"
"A Story Without an End"
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg"
"The Death Disk"
"Two Little Tales"
"The Belated Russian Passport"
"A Double-Barreled Detective Story"
"The Five Boons of Life"
"Was it Heaven? Or Hell?"
"A Dog's Tale"
"The $30,000 Bequest"
"A Horse's Tale"
"Hunting the Deceitful Turkey"
"Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"
"A Fable"
"The Mysterious Stranger" | |
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"Twain sure is folksy!"
(Reads Mysterious Stranger.)
"Didn't expect that!"
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