The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
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The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A day at Niagara -- Legend of the Capitoline Venus -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A curious dream -- The facts in the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- A medieval romance -- My watch -- Political economy -- Science vs. Luck -- The story of the good little boy -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- The story of the old ram -- Tom Quartz -- A trial -- The trials of Simon Erickson -- A true story -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup
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His comedy remains hilarious. Most of my exposure is through The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain. It's highly readable, and in what I find to be a pretty rare thing in old writing, the characters all feel like they were created yesterday, not ages ago.
on “Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant” ↗A couple years ago I picked up The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Short-Stories-Bantam-Classics...), and since then I've recommended it to people at every opportunity. Twain's a master of a lot of things in writing, obviously, but one…
on “What Ails the Short Story” ↗The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain is available in its entirety on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=ElrBj9ZcW50C&printsec=f... Also free on Amazon in e-book form for Kindle/iOS devices: http://www.amazon.com/A-Dogs-Tale-ebook/dp/B000JQU9WO/
on “Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant” ↗