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Details
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Title
Mark Twain Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1852-1890
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Author
Mark Twain
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Binding
Hardback in slipcase
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Edition
First Edition
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Condition
New
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Pages
1076
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Library of America, New York
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Date
October 1992
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Features
Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
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Bookseller's Inventory #
261962
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ISBN
9780940450363 / 0940450364
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Weight
1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
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Dimensions
8.16 x 5.22 x 1.34 in (20.73 x 13.26 x 3.40 cm)
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Ages
18 to UP years
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Grade levels
13 - UP
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Library of Congress subjects
Speeches, addresses, etc., American, Humorous stories, American
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
92052657
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
Summary
A masterpiece collection of great literature, The Great Short Works of Mark Twain belongs on every bookshelf, featuring classics such as Old Times on the Mississippi, The Mysterious Stranger, The Jumping Frog, and more.
From the rear cover
This with its companion volume is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. This volume contains eighty pieces from the years 1891 to 1910, when Twain emerged from bankruptcy and personal tragedy to become the white-suited, cigar- smoking international celebrity who reported on his own follies and those of humanity with an unerring sense of the absurd. Some stories display Twain's fascination with money and greed, such as "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg". Other stories, written after the death of his daughter Susy in 1896, explore the outer limits of fantasy and psychic phenomena, including "Which Was the Dream?", "The Great Dark", and "My Platonic Sweetheart". The United States military involvement in Cuba, China, and the Philippines turned Twain's attention to political satire and invective. "To the Person Sitting in Darkness", "The United States of Lyncherdom", "The Czar's Soliloquy", "King Leopold's Soliloquy", and "The War Prayer" are biting denunciations of European and American imperialism. Other political issues inspired articles and stories about the Jews, the notorious Dreyfus case, and vivisection. Twain's increasingly unorthodox religious opinions are powerfully, often comically expressed in "Extracts from Adam's Diary", "Eve's Diary", "Eve Speaks","Adam's Soliloquy", "A Humane Word from Satan", "What Is Man?", "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", and "Letters from the Earth". "Against the assault of laughter", he said, "nothing can stand". Twain's brilliant inventiveness continues to shine in such later comic masterpieces as "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences", "Italian Without a Master", "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey", and "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It". A posthumous collection of proverbs and aphorisms ("More Maxims of Mark") is included as an appendix. The publishing history of every story, essay, article, and speech has been thoroughly researched, and in each instance the most authoritative text has been reproduced. This collection also includes an extensive chronology of Twain's complex life, helpful notes on the people and events referred to in his works, and a guide to the texts.
About the author
Louis J. Budd, volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Duke University, a literary cirtic, and a leading Mark Twain scholar. He is the author of Mark Twain: Social Philosopher and Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality, as well as the former managing editor of the American Literature journal. He lived in Patagonia, Arizona and passed away in 2010 at the age of 89.