The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," as well as some delightful excerpts fromThe Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author's twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain's artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.

LAWRRENCE I. BERKOVE, this volume's editor, is a professor of English at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, and a noted authority on Mark Twain. He has published groundbreaking essays on Twain’s major novels, short fiction, travel literature, and religious values. PETE HAMILL, this volume's introducer, is a journalist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer, and the author of A Drinking Life: A Memoir and Why Sinatra Matters. His ten novels include Snow in August and Forever. He lives in New York City.

Biographical note
Introduction
Editor's preface
Jim Smiley and his jumping frog	p. 3
The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief	p. 10
Cannibalism in the cars	p. 14
Journalism in Tennessee	p. 22
The story of the good little boy who did not prosper	p. 29
How I edited an agricultural paper once	p. 34
Political economy	p. 40
A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it	p. 46
The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut	p. 51
Punch, brothers, punch!	p. 67
Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn	p. 72
The stolen white elephant	p. 77
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm	p. 95
The private history of a campaign that failed	p. 101
Extracts from Adam's diary	p. 120
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg	p. 130
The $30,000 bequest	p. 172
Eve's diary	p. 198
Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven	p. 213
Letter from the recording angel	p. 264
The great dark	p. 269
The Second Advent	p. 309
War times	p. 327
Private history of the "Jumping frog" story	p. 331
How to tell a story	p. 339
Notes	p. 345
Selected Bibliography	p. 363
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