This volume gathers eight of Mark Twain’s most-loved humorous stories and features ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’-the career-making story of a visit by an inveterate gambler to an old mining camp in California’s Gold Country. The undisputed master of the tall tale, Twain’s legendary deadpan delivery and his ability to pile on and compound the hilarity make his stories as uproarious as they are singular. His humor also reveals a keen insight into not only what makes us laugh but what makes us human. This Warbler Classics edition includes Twain’s 1894 essay ‘Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story, ‘ which includes Twain’s ‘retranslation’ from the French, and a detailed biographical timeline.
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Contents
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County1
from Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story by Mark Twain9
Cannibalism in the Cars21
Journalism in Tennessee32
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper40
The Stolen White Elephant47
The Invalid’s Story73
Luck82
Hunting the Deceitful Turkey88
Biographical Timeline92
Circa l’autore
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, arguably the greatest humorist the United States has ever produced and the author of travel narratives and novels that have shaped American literature. His most famous books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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