Mark Twain's Best Short Stories
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, is the author of such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Prince and the Pauper. He was born in Florida, Missouri and grew up along the Mississippi Valley. Although he left school at the age of 12, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, miner, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, novelist, and publisher. His vivid imagination, keen sense of humor, and sharp wit resulted in some of the most beloved classics of American literature. This book contains some of Clemens' best loved short stories and essays, both humorous and thought provoking. Includes "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Stolen White Elephant", "A Dog's Tale", and "Extracts from Adam's Diary", among others. Illustrated.
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Mark Twain's Best Short Stories
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, is the author of such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Prince and the Pauper. He was born in Florida, Missouri and grew up along the Mississippi Valley. Although he left school at the age of 12, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, miner, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, novelist, and publisher. His vivid imagination, keen sense of humor, and sharp wit resulted in some of the most beloved classics of American literature. This book contains some of Clemens' best loved short stories and essays, both humorous and thought provoking. Includes "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Stolen White Elephant", "A Dog's Tale", and "Extracts from Adam's Diary", among others. Illustrated.
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Mark Twain's Best Short Stories

Mark Twain's Best Short Stories

by Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, is the author of such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Prince and the Pauper. He was born in Florida, Missouri and grew up along the Mississippi Valley. Although he left school at the age of 12, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, miner, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, novelist, and publisher. His vivid imagination, keen sense of humor, and sharp wit resulted in some of the most beloved classics of American literature. This book contains some of Clemens' best loved short stories and essays, both humorous and thought provoking. Includes "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Stolen White Elephant", "A Dog's Tale", and "Extracts from Adam's Diary", among others. Illustrated.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461038160
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 04/04/2011
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

How to Tell a Story .................................................................................. 5

The Invalid’s Story ................................................................................... 8

The Stolen White Elephant ........................................................................ 13

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ..................................... 28

About Magnanimous-Incident Literature .................................................. 34

Punch, Brothers, Punch ............................................................................. 39

An Encounter with An Interviewer ............................................................. 43

Legend of Sagenfeld, In Germany .............................................................. 46

Concerning the American Language ........................................................... 50

The $30,000 Bequest ............................................................................... 52

The Canvasser’s Tale ............................................................................... 73

A Dog’s Tale ............................................................................................ 77

Was it Heaven? Or Hell? .......................................................................... 85

A Cure for the Blues ................................................................................. 98

The Curious Book .................................................................................... 111

The Californian’s Tale ............................................................................... 140

A Burlesque Biography ............................................................................. 146

Wit Inspirations of the “Two-Year-Olds” ................................................... 149

An Entertaining Article .............................................................................. 152

Amended Obituaries ................................................................................. 158

The Danger of Lying in Bed ....................................................................... 159

Advice to Little Girls ................................................................................. 161

Does the Race of Man Love A Lord? ........................................................ 162

Extracts from Adam’s Diary ...................................................................... 170

Eve’s Diary ............................................................................................... 177

Extract from Adam’s Diary ........................................................................ 183

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