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American Drolleries
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American Drolleries
An entirely new collection of the best short stories by Mark Twain, beautifully illustrated and designed.
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'I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.' Mark Twain
In these extraordinary stories, Mark Twain takes us from the sleepy banks of the Mississippi, through frontier towns, and across the deserted gold plains of California. We encounter his countryfolk in all their bizarre variety: a cannibalistic ex-senator, a compulsive gambler, phoney travelling salesmen, and a team of bumbling detectives.
The breadth, skill, and comic ingenuity of these tales remind us why Mark Twain is truly the father of American literature.
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ISBN: 9781907970047
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 November 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 15.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 226g
Pages: 186
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About the Author
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain grew up in Hannibal, on the banks of the Mississippi River. His pen name originates from a river term for safe water. In 1862 he started working as a journalist and later published collections of travel writing and short stories. Three of his novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are recognised as masterpieces. Twain also wrote short stories and sketches, along with over 5,000 pages of memoirs. Before his death in 1910, he left instructions that the memoirs should not be published until 100 years after his death. The first volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain was published in 2010.
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