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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.”

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain is a collection of 169 short stories by the author. 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. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain is a collection of 169 short stories by the author. 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. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

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.”

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.

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.

This collection of the complete short stories of Mark Twain has all of the following works: 1601 Conversation, As It Was The Social Fireside, In The Time Of The Tudors, A Burlesque Autobiography, A Couple Of Poems By Twain And Moore, A Couple Of Sad Experiences, A Cure For The Blues, A Curious Dream: Containing A Moral, A Curious Experience, A Curious Pleasure Excursion, A Day’s Work, A Dog In Church, A Dog’s Tale, A Dose Of Painkiller, A Double Barrelled Detective Story, A Fashion Item, A Fine Old Man, A Genuine Mexican Plug, A Ghost Story, A Helpless Situation, A Majestic Literary Fossil, A Medieval Romance, A Memory, A Mysterious Visit, A Petition To The Queen Of England, A Reminiscence Of The Back Settlements, A Restless Night, A Royal Compliment, A Telephonic Conversation, A True Story: Repeated Word For Word As I Heard It, Abelard And Helois, About All Kinds Of Ships, About Barbers, About Magnanimous-incident Literature, About Smells, After Jenkins, An Encounter With An Interviewer, Answers To Correspondents, Aurelia’s Unfortunate Young Man, Blue-jays, Cannibalism In The Cars, Colonel Sellers At Home, Concerning Chambermaids, Concerning The American Language, Curing A Cold, Curious Relic For Sale, Dan Murphy, Dick Baker’s Cat, Disgraceful Persecution Of A Boy, Edward Mills And George Benton: A Tale, European Diet, Eve’s Diary, Experience Of The Mcwilliamses With Membraneous Croup, Extract From Captain Stormfield’s Visit To Heaven, Extracts From Adam’s Diary, First Interview With Artemus Ward, First Romance, General Washington’s Negro Body-servant: A Biographical Sketch, Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again

1957, hardcover edition, International Collectors Library, NY. 676 pages. Includes a total of 60 stories. The text from the material here is taken from the 37 volumes in the Harper & Brothers collection, published in 1929. Includes a 12-page introduction by talented writer / editor, Charles Neider. The material here is simply marvelous and includes wonderful stories, such as: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg / A Dog's Tale / The Mysterious Stranger / and many others.

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.

Here--for the first time--are all of Mark Twain's delightful, humorous, ironic short stories collected in one volume. There are sixty stories in all. They range in tone from the high-spirited "Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the symbolic "The Mysterious Stranger."It has been said of Mark Twain that a formal scheme was about as appealing to him as a tight collar. So it is not surprising that whenever Twain prepared a collection he would mix things up, give them variety, so that his readers might be surprised. Thus fact and fiction, stories, sketches, and articles have been indiscriminately mingled into volumes of adventure, travel, and autobiography. In this way--up to this time--many of his excellent short stories have been neglected and overlooked.Mark Twain's special genius was his infectious humor--a humor that came from his penetrating insight into the foibles and follies of human nature. This ability to make people laugh (although they might blush at the same time) is found in stories such as "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note," "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven," and "The $30,000 Bequest." Others, such as "Cannibalism in the Cars" and "The Stolen White Elephant," while less well known, show us Mark Twain, the inimitable American humorist, at his best.