These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author’s death.
Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the humorous short story. All the tales he wrote over the course of his lengthy career are gathered here, including such immortal classics as “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, “The Diary of Adam and Eve,” and “The $30,000 Bequest.” Twain’s inimitable wit, his nimble plotting, and his unerring insight into human nature are on full display in these wonderfully entertaining stories.The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County TheStory 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 TheStory of the Old Ram Tom Quartz A Trial The Trials of Simon Erickson A True Story Experience 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: ATale The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby’s Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning What Stumped the Bluejays&llƒ2
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