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1) The complete short stories of Mark Twain

Author

Twain, Mark

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: "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...

2) The autobiography of Mark Twain

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Mark Twain papers
Mint Editions

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan"...

3) The complete tales of Washington Irving

Author

Irving, Washington

Language

English

4) Tolstoy: tales of courage and conflict

Author

Tolstoy, Leo

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Russian novelist and philospher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for his monumental novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but his reputation as a master of short fiction is richly evident in this unparalleled anthology. Here, in the largest one-volume collection available, are 36 stories of war, intrigue, treachery, murder, moral turmoil, spiritual anguish, and occasional redemption. They include early stories like the famed "Sevastopol" tales...

5) Short novels of the masters

Author

Neider, Charles

Pub. Date

[1948]

Language

English

6) The complete short stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a selection of the best short novels

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Language

English

7) The travels of Mark Twain

Author

Twain, Mark

Language

English

8) The selected letters of Mark Twain

Author

Twain, Mark

Pub. Date

[1982]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

9) Life as I find it

Author

Twain, Mark

Pub. Date

[1961]

Edition

[First edition].

Language

English

10) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: including the omitted, long, brilliant raft chapter, with the final "Tom Sawyer" section, abridged

Author

Twain, Mark

Pub. Date

1985.

Language

English

11) Papa: an intimate biography of Mark Twain

Author

Clemens, Susy

Pub. Date

1985.

Language

English

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A biography of Twain written by his daughter Susy when she was thirteen and he was fifty. Includes correspondence between the two.

12) The complete humorous sketches and tales of Mark Twain

Author

Twain, Mark

Pub. Date

1996.

Edition

First Da Capo Press edition.

Language

English

13) Short novels of the masters

Pub. Date

2001.

Edition

First Cooper Square Press edition.

Language

English

14) Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

Author

Twain, Mark

Pub. Date

[1984]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Throughout America's Gilded Age, humorist and novelist Samuel Clemens, a. k. a. Mark Twain (1835-1910), was in great demand as a public speaker. This anthology, spanning the years from 1866 to 1909, collects 82 examples of Twain's best "spoken" work. Topics include American mythmaking, the Hawaiian Islands, masturbation, the art of war, New York morals, and stage fright.