Publisher Description
This second collection of great American short stories includes these titles:
Majorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The McWilliams and the Burglar Alarm and Mrs. McWilliams and the Lighting by Mark Twain
The Phonograph and the Graft and The Lotus and the Bottle by O. Henry
The Wild Horse of Tartary by Clara Morris
Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra and The Phantom Island by Washington Irving
The Great Stone Face and My Kinsman, Major Molinaux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chickamauga and The Coup de Grace by Ambrose Bierce
The Premature Burial and The Oblong Box by Edgar Allen Poe
The Descent of Man by Edith Wharton
A Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane
The Boy Who Drew Cats by Lafcadio Hearn
The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
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"mark twain is such a clever, fascinating kind of guy. he's written so much but for some reason this simple little novel remains my favorite of his.
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Glenna (5 out of 5 stars)
About Mark Twain
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.
In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.
In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.