{"product_id":"the-complete-short-stories-of-mark-twain-paperback","title":"The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of \"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,\" to the bitter vision of humankind in \"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,\" to the delightful hilarity of \"Is He Living or Is He Dead?\" Surging with Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L. Mencken-\"the father of our national literature.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of \"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,\" but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Fin\u003c\/i\u003en (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological \"wonder\" that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, \u003ci\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/i\u003e (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about \"the damned human race.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 679\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 6.7 x 4.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1984\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52520107049267,"sku":"9780553211955","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dlZaOVB3OTRjNFVvbXo4RjVEUGhmQT09.webp?v=1760518447","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-complete-short-stories-of-mark-twain-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}