The Portable Mark Twain
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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. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including the often omitted raftsmenpassage.
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Contents:
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)
How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once (1870)
Selections From Roughing It (1872)
An Encounter with an Interviewer (1874)
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874)
Selections from
-The Innocents Abroad (1869)
-The Gilded Age (1873)
-A Tramp Abroad (1880)
-Life on the Mississippi (1883)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) [Complete Novel]
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885)
Selections from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893)
Selections from
-The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
-Following the Equator (1897)
To the Person Sitting in Darkenss (1901)
Corn-Pone Opinions (1901)
Early Days (1907)
Speeches
Letters
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