The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812971183 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’s artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.. This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years
Unavoidable! Inspector Gadget I have no doubt that Mark Twain was one of the greatest writers ever and if you've read his more popular work then I suggest that you sit down with these rarely printed short stories to prove to yourself just what a genius he was. The stories here are so good they're unavoidable for Twain devotees. They amount of imagination crammed into these pages could provoke years of inspiration and pondering.While they are mostly all unrelated tales, Twain does have one main subtext for pretty much all of them-the futility of religion. Like myself, Twain believes that the romantic, fant. Mostly great stories, mostly dull narration It takes a special kind of narrator to make an audiobook by Mark Twain almost boring, but Robin Field nearly manages it. To be fair, some of his voice characterizations when doing dialogue are quite good, but his straight narration is pretty dull. Still, Twain's writing is generally good enough that once you get accommodated to the lackluster reading after a couple of stories or so, you're able to just enjoy it on the strength of its own merits.Included here are some of the standard stories that are in practically every Twain collection, like "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog". Awesome Narrator for these Stories TheFarBetwixt I saw a review saying the narrator was boring, and so I just wanted to say that I came upon this page specifically because I was hoping that Robin Field has narrated more Mark Twain stuff. I think he is did an awesome job with these stories. This is one of the only audiobooks I have ever listened to multiple times.
. LAWRRENCE I. His ten novels include Snow in August and Forever. He lives in New York City. He has published groundbreaking essays on Twain’s major novels, short fiction, travel literature, and religious values.PETE HAMILL, this volume's introducer, is a journalist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer, and the author of A Drinking Life: A Memoir and Why Sinatra Matters. BERKOVE, this volume's editor, is a pr
"I like a good story told well. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."