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Publication
Viking Portable (1970), Paperback, 790 pages
Description
Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches.
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LibraryThing member edwin.gleaves
Great collection of a great writer
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Original publication date
1946
Physical description
790 p.; 7 inches
ISBN
0670010200 / 9780670010202
Local notes
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. The Mysterious Stranger. LETTERS. SELECTIONS FROM: Pudd'nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Old Times on the Missippi; A Tramp Abroad; Following the Equator; Mark Twain in Eruption; Europe and Elsewhere; Autobiography