COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF MARK TWAIN, TH(ISBN=9780553211955)

　　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."

　　Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological "wonder" that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about "the damned human race."

Introduction
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
The Story of the Bad Little Boy
Cannibalism in the Cars
A Day at Niagara
Legend of the Capitoline Venus
Journalism in Tennessee
A Curious Dream
The Facts in the Great Beef Contract
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
A Medieval Romance
My Watch 
Political Economy
Science vs. Luck
The Story of the Good Little Boy
Buck Fanshaw's Funeral
The Story of the Old Ram 
Tom Quartz
A Trial
The Trials of Simon Erickson
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The Mysterious Stranger