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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,... Read Full Overview

This comprehensive collection of Twain's short stories showcases his immense talent, humor, and wit. Considered to be the greatest American humorist of all time, Mark Twain was born in 1835 and was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, where many of his most well-known stories take... Read Full Overview

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.

For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the authoratative two-volume Library of America edition of Mark Twain's incomparable short writings -- the stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist.... Read Full Overview

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Mark Twain's famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story. This is the only... Read Full Overview

This book contains a wonderful collection of some of Mark Twain's finest writings, including: -1601 - In Defence of Harriet Shelley - Is Shakespeare Dead? - How to Tell a Story - Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

This collection of the complete short stories of Mark Twain has all of the following works: 1601 Conversation, As It Was The Social Fireside, In The Time Of The Tudors, A Burlesque Autobiography, A Couple Of Poems By Twain And Moore, A Couple Of Sad Experiences, A Cure For The... Read Full Overview

This book contains a wonderful collection of some of Mark Twain's finest writings, including: -1601 - In Defence of Harriet Shelley - Is Shakespeare Dead? - How to Tell a Story - Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again