The Portable Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Other authorsBernard De Voto (Editor)
Paperback, 1970

Status

Available

Call number

818.409

Collection

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member edwin.gleaves
Great collection of a great writer

Language

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
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