The Collected Shorter Works Of Mark Twain
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 2005-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553901966 |
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.”
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061760854 |
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
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1140 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : |
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307431983 |
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’s artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1598535285 |
The most comprehensive collection of Mark Twain's short writings ever to be published. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, this deluxe collector's edition shows with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Courage Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781561383238 |
Presents more than twenty short stories by nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain--including "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "How to Tell a Story"--And an essay on the author by Charles Neider.
Author | : Peter Messent |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2001-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812236224 |
"A delightfully informed path through the complexities of composition, publishing history, and the textual discontinuities that characterize so many of Twain's stories."—Journal of American Studies
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2004-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743487796 |
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.
Author | : Harold H. Kolb |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0761864210 |
Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with a discussion of humor, and then demonstrates how Twain’s artistic strategies, his remarkable achievements, and even his philosophy were bound together in his conception of humor, and how this conception developed across a forty-five year career. Kolb shows that Twain is a writer whose lifelong mode of perception is essentially humorous, a writer who sees the world in the sharp clash of contrast, whose native language is exaggeration, and whose vision unravels and reorganizes our perceptions. Humor, in all its mercurial complexity, is at the center of Mark Twain’s talent, his successes, and his limitations. It is as a humorist—amiably comic, sharply satiric, grimly ironic, simultaneously humorous and serious—that he is best understood.