Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the american author Mark Twain. Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Works selected for this book: - About Barbers; - A Dog's Tale; - A Ghost Story; - A Monument to Adam; - Eve's Diary; - Extracts from Adam's Diary; - The Stolen White Elephant.
Download or read book Marke Twain s Best Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Piccadilly Books, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 7 Best Short Stories by Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American writer most famous for his children's books 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Born Samuel Clemens, he used the pen name Mark Twain for his writing career. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: - About Barbers - A Dog's Tale - A Ghost Story - A Monument to Adam - Eve's Diary - Extracts from Adam's Diary - The Stolen White Elephant
Download or read book Great Short Works of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected short works of humor and criticism by a revered American master Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still taught to nearly everyone who attends school and is considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Twain’s shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled style and bite. In a review that’s less than kind to the writing of James Fenimore Cooper, Twain writes: “Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred handier things to step on, but that wouldn’t satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can’t do it, go and borrow one.” It’s difficult to imagine anyone else writing in quite this style, though many have tried, which is why Twain’s legacy only continues to grow. The collection includes 20 works, including: Old Times on the Mississippi The Mysterious Stranger The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The Jumping Frog Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn A True Story Letter to the Earth The War Prayer
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Download or read book The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain s Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.
Download or read book The Best Short Works of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of short stories by Mark Twain along with background information, chronology of Twain's life and work, timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, explanatory notes, critical analysis, and discussion questions.
Download or read book Mark Twain s Best Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique collection of Mark Twain's (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) best short stories, including popular short pieces like, "Burlesque Autobiography" and "How to Write a Story." The short stories also include "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg."
Download or read book Best Short Stories by Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes Mark Twain's best short stories, which are representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, Story of a Good Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, Niagara, The Capitoline Venus, Journalism in Tennessee, The Curious Dream, The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, How I Edited An Agricultural Paper, A Medieval Romance, My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale, Political Economy, The Science vs. Luck, The True Story, The McWilliamses and the Membranous Croup, Some Learned fables, For Good Old Boys and Girls, The Canvasser's Tale, The Loves of Alonzo Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton, Edward Mills and George Benton, Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning, What Stumped the Blue Jays, and A Curious Experience. More than 150 pages of classic tales by one of America's most loved authors.
Download or read book The Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Miniature Masters. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 and is far better known by his pen name; Mark Twain. An American author and humorist of the first order he is perhaps most famous for his novels, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876, and its sequel, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, written in 1885 and often described with that mythic line - "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the backdrop for these great novels. Apprenticed to a printer he also worked as a typesetter but eventually became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Later, heading west with his brother, Orion to make his fortune he failed at gold mining and instead turned to journalism and found his true calling as a writer of humorous stories. It on these shorter stories that this volume dwells. His wit and humour sparkle from every page, his craft evident with every phase and punctured target. Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet, and predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return in 1910 Many of the stories are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Word Of Mouth. Many samples are at our youtube channel http: //www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe
Download or read book The Best Works of Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court by Mark Twain A Dog s Tale by Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Embark on a whimsical adventure with “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.” Mark Twain takes you on a time-traveling journey as Hank Morgan, a modern man, finds himself in King Arthur's legendary realm. With humor and satire, Twain explores the clash of eras, challenging societal norms and traditions. Book 2: Witness the world through the eyes of man's best friend in “A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain.” Mark Twain offers a poignant and thought-provoking narrative, narrated by a loyal dog named Aileen. This touching tale delves into the complexities of human-animal relationships, addressing themes of loyalty, kindness, and the resilience of the canine spirit. Book 3: Embark on a humorous and insightful journey across Europe in “A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain.” Mark Twain combines travelogue and satire as he recounts his experiences, observations, and misadventures while exploring the Old World. With his signature wit, Twain provides a humorous perspective on the cultural differences and idiosyncrasies encountered during his travels.
Download or read book Mark Twain s Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects together 65 of the best of Mark Twain's short stories. It opens with The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, a famous early story set on the Western frontier, and spans nearly 50 years during which Twain wrote a variety of short stories.
Download or read book Tall Tales and Short Stories written by Mark Twain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May you always keep your youth." Mark Twain TALL TALES AND SHORT STORIES is an hilarious collection of Mark Twain's lesser known works that will have you chuckling long after you've finished the book. Get your copy today and rediscover one of America's greatest humorists-it's time to get your funny on! The stories found in this book include: -The War Prayer -Political Economy -My Watch, An Instructive Tale -The Story Of The Bad Little Boy -The Story Of The Good Little Boy This compilation of will open up Mark Twin's work to a whole new generation of readers!
Download or read book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories and Famous Essays of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
