Publisher Description
This third collection of great American short stories includes these titles:
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
Mr. Higgenbothem's Catastrophe and The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Editha by William Dean Howells
The Courting of Sister Wisby by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Damned Thing and Beyond the Wall by Ambrose Bierce
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
Jimmy Rose and The Fiddler by Herman Melville
The Stout Gentleman by Washington Irving
Even Unto Death by Jack London
Louisa by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Mliss by Bret Harte
The Bar Sinister by Richard Harding Davis
The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain
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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.