The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Everyman Paperback Classics
Release Date : 2012-01-01
ISBN : 184159346X
Pages : 776 pages
Format : PDF, EPUB, AudioBook, KINDLE or MOBI
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Download or read book in PDF The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Everyman Paperback Classics. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain's famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story. This is the only edition in hardcover of his complete shorter fiction: sixty tales spanning a long career - many rollicking and uproarious, some sombre and even shocking. Included, of course, are such immortal classics as 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' (1865), a humorous piece set in Gold-Rush California, which helped establish the young author's reputation, and 'The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg' (1899), a satirical novella in which a self-righteously respectable American small town is exposed as a fraud.