Mark Twain's Superbest Sketches and Short Stories: Renowned Classics and Rediscovered Gems from America’s Favorite Author - Brossura

Twain, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1544220235 ISBN 13: 9781544220239

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Riassunto

Mark Twain is probably best known for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", and "The Prince and the Pauper" as well as his travel books "Life on the Mississippi", "Roughing It", and "The Innocents Abroad." Twain was a prolific writer, though, and besides his many other novels and full-length nonfiction works, he also produced vast amounts of other types of works, bequeathing to readers many dozens of sketches and short stories (and this is without even more than mentioning his correspondence, speeches, essays, and his far-and-wide-ranging autobiography). This collection contains the best (or "superbest") of his sketches and short stories. Many are fictional stories (albeit often rooted in fact and actual occurrences), and many are "his take" (usually humorous) on various things - you can think of them as colorful op-ed pieces. The selection of what to include and what to leave out was made by one person; it must be admitted that each person has their own taste and opinion, and no two people would arrive at the same conclusion as to which sketches and stories should be squeezed into this necessarily abbreviated volume, and which ones would have been better left out of it in favor of another. The sketches and short stories appear in chronological order, from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, written in 1867, to The Turning-Point of My Life written in 1910. Mark Twain’s Superbest Sketches and Short Stories: Renowned Classics and Rediscovered Gems from America’s Favorite Author contains 42 sketches and short stories. A partial list of Twain's Sketches and Short Stories which are contained in this volume follows: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Journalism in Tennessee Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Running for Governor A Mysterious Visit The Approaching Epidemic To Raise Poultry A Burlesque Biography Punch, Brothers, Punch Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton On the Decay of the Art of Lying The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm Taming the Bicycle Private History of a Campaign That Failed Last Words of Great Men The Californian's Tale The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance Travelling with a Reformer Is He Living, or Is He Dead? My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It My Boyhood Dreams The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg Extracts from Adam's Diary A Dog's Tale The War Prayer Eve's Diary The Death of Jean The Turning-Point of My Life

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1544220235
• ISBN 13: 9781544220239
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576
• Redattore: Shannon B. Clay