Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Product Description For deft plotting, inventive and tumultuous, 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 all of Twain's inimitable son-spinning, his early broad comedy to satire of his later years. Each of his sixty stories is here: from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the bitter vision of humanity in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, at 'delightful hilarity of "Is he alive or is he dead? "The outbreak of Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating into the follies of human nature, this volume is a summary of the dynamic career-in the words of HL Mencken," the father of our national literature. "About the author Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a comedian in 1865 with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" but was recognized as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) . In 1880, Twain began promoting and funding the unfortunate Paige typesetter, an invention to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his involvement in the naïve technological "wonder" that nearly brought him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables of "the accursed race of man." See all Editorial Reviews
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