The best short stories of Mark Twain

Author

Mark Twain

Call Number

• FICTION TWAI (CEN)

Edition

Modern Library pbk. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Modern Library, 2004.

Physical Description

xxv, 364 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents

• Jim Smiley and his jumping frog
• The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief
• Cannibalism in the cars
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The story of the good little boy who did not prosper
• How I edited an agricultural paper once
• Political ecoonomy
• A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it
• The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut
• Punch, brothers, punch!
• Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn
• The stolen white elephant
• The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm
• The private history of a campaign that failed
• Extracts from Adam's diary
• The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
• The $30,000 bequest
• Eve's diary
• Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven
• Letter from the recording angel
• The great dark
• The second advent ; War times
• Private history of the "Jumping Frog" story
• How to tell a story.