The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
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.”
Notes
Note 2025-01-29-Wednesday
Time: 23:12 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read A dog's tale so sad!
Note 2025-01-25-Saturday
Time: 16:58 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read Was it Heaven, or Hell?
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The five boons of life
Note 2025-01-20-Monday
Time: 12:32 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read A double barreled detective story. Honestly a tough one to get through.
Note 2025-01-18-Saturday
Time: 08:27 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read The belated Russian Passport
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Two little tales
Note 2025-01-17-Friday
Time: 19:21 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read The Death Disk
Note 2024-12-26-Thursday
Time: 13:27 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Cecil Rhodes and the Shark
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read The joke that made Ed’s fortune
Note 2024-12-25-Wednesday
Time: 19:10 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read The 1 Million pound bank note
Note 2024-12-23-Monday
Time: 10:33 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read The Esquimau Maiden's Romance
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read Is he living or is he dead?
Note 2024-11-29-Friday
Time: 19:55 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Californian's Tale
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read Dairy of Adam and Eve
Note 2024-11-22-Friday
Time: 21:54 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read A Ghost Story
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Playing Courier
Note 2024-10-13-Sunday
Time: 13:40 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read The stolen white elephant
- This is pretty fun satire; A little long, but the joke is obvious to the reader as we're "clued in" to the ridiculous questions of the detectives.
Note 2024-10-12-Saturday
Time: 16:14 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read What McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Invalid's Story
Note 2024-10-08-Tuesday
Time: 10:20 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read What Stumped the Bluejays
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read A curious experience was pretty predictable, given that I'm now familiar with Mark Twain's writings.
Note 2024-10-05-Saturday
Time: 15:09 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
- This must be related to the other story about McWilliamses with the wife who is hysterical about everything.
Note 2024-09-29-Sunday
Time: 09:44 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Loves of Alonzo and Rosannah
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Canvasser’s Tale
Note 2024-09-28-Saturday
Time: 19:30 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read Some learned Fables from good old boys and girls
Note 2024-09-15-Sunday
Time: 10:31 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read A true story
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
Note 2024-09-07-Saturday
Time: 09:49 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The trials of Simon Erickson
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read A Trial
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read Tom Quartz
Note 2024-09-01-Sunday
Time: 09:50 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read The Story of the old Ram so hard to read
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Buck Fanshaw’s funeral mildly entertaining
Note 2024-08-30-Friday
Time: 10:03 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read My watch. It seems like Mark Twain was wary about the advice of experts
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read Political Economy
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Science vs. Luck
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read The story of the good little boy
Note 2024-08-28-Wednesday
Time: 14:00 PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read How I edited an agricultural paper
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read A medieval romance
Note 2024-08-27-Tuesday
Time: 09:25 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read A curious dream and was quite bored
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Facts in the great Beef Contract. I think Mark Twain’s best works tend to be satirical.
Note 2024-08-26-Monday
Time: 13:40PM
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read A day at Niagara, which poked fun at how unfun a day a niagara falls is. Amusing.
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Legend of the Capitoline Venus.
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read Journalism in Tennessee. In a way this is similar to Cannibalism in the Cars, where the absurd cordialness gives way to an amusing exchange.
Note 2024-08-25-Sunday
Time: 09:55 AM
- #books/shorts/tiers/B Read The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- #books/shorts/tiers/C Read The story of the bad little boy
- Learned that consumption is the old term for Tuberculosis
- #books/shorts/tiers/A Read Cannibalism in the Cars. Fun read.