The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13:

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"The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories," published in 1906, is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained the most successful plays he created throughout his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904.


The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Bantam Classics

Published: 2005-09-27

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13: 0553901966

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For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”


The Short Works of Mark Twain

The Short Works of Mark Twain

Author: Peter Messent

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2001-08-22

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780812236224

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"A delightfully informed path through the complexities of composition, publishing history, and the textual discontinuities that characterize so many of Twain's stories."—Journal of American Studies


No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-02-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0520270002

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Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.


Merry Tales

Merry Tales

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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"To no writer can the term 'American' more justly be applied than to the humorist whose Merry Tales are here presented." -Editor's Note, Merry Tales (1892) Merry Tales (1892) is a collection of seven humorous short stories written by Mark Twain in his quintessential satirical style. This collection includes Meisterschaft, a play where two young lovers conduct their courtship in beginning German; Luck, a funny sketch about the military and The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, this collection's most popular story about Twain's experiences during the Civil War. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1892 edition of Merry Tales is a nice addition to the library of Mark Twain aficionados.