The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00005VO13 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 676 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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What's not to like about Mark Twain What's not to like about Mark Twain? This you can pick up when you're short on time and need a light pick-me-up. Put a smile on your face and escape from politics.. Not a book to be read in one sitting. LULUBELLE Not a book to be read in one sitting. Various stories on various topics current at the time Twain wrote it.. Great stories to share with younger generation. I have not read word for word, but enjoyed humor of years gone by.
In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. About the Author Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about "the damned human race." . He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1885). At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological "wonder" that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Tw
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