The best short stories of Mark Twain
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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 41 min.)) : digital.
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electronic resource - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2009.
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Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robin Field. |
Summary, etc.: | Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for social justice and equality. Beginning the collection is Twain's comic version of an old folk tale, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," first published in 1865 in the New York Saturday Press. It became the title story of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, the work that established him as a leading American humorist. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Humorous stories, American Short stories, American 19th century |