Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors.
This book brings some of best essays of Mark Twain, across a wide range of subjects, including literature, social commentary, humor and many more topics.
Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the ‘greatest humorist the United States has produced, ‘ and William Faulkner called him ‘the father of American literature’. Many of his most relevant works were published by Tacet Books.
The book contains the following texts:
– Introduction by Edmund Gosse
– How to Tell a Story
– Advice to Youth
– Taming The Bicycle
– At the Funeral
– Advice To Little Girls
– The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
– Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences
– Concerning Tobacco
– The Bee
About the author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.