Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

mass market paperback

English language

Published Oct. 30, 1981 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-21162-7
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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 -- Some learned fables for good old boys and girls -- The canvasser's tale -- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale -- The man who put up at …

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To be honest, this was sort of a "desperation" book; one of many that I've picked up from the three for a dollar room at the Boston Book Annex which was down the street from my workplace at the time but is now, sadly, long gone. They had a beautiful pair of bookstore cats, one of whom would lick my hand endlessly if I held it in front of him.

At three for a buck I could pick up all sorts of odd books that I wouldn't normally try. The Twain book didn't really fall into that category, of course; I'd read a fair amount of Twain. But the thing about this edition was that it was over 600 pages long with small type; it was very compact.

Anyway, I grabbed the Twain collection (which also includes short stand-alone fiction taken from within longer novels and non-fiction books) because it …

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