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

For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, <i> <b>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</b></i>, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain's short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the richly imaginative fable "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." Compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain's wittiest and most insightful writing.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Mark Twain<br><b>Publisher:</b> Signet Book<br><b>Published:</b> 05/02/2006<br><b>Pages:</b> 809<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.70h x 4.20w x 1.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780451530165<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Mark Twain</b> was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. 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 went bankrupt and undertook a