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The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories

ISBN 
9780451530165
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R175.00
Published 
March 2016
About the book: 
"The humorous story is strictly a work of art—high and delicate—and only an artist can tell it."—Mark Twain, "How to Tell a Story"
 
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.