The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451524403 ISBN 13: 9780451524409

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1985

Synopsis

Presents a collection of sixty-six of the author's short fiction, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County," "A Curious Dream," and "Dick Baker's Cat."

About this title

About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimentaland also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called the Lincoln of our literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0451524403
• ISBN 13: 9780451524409
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 688