The Comic Mark Twain Reader : The most humorous selections from his Stories, Sketches, Novels, Travel Books, and Speeches

532 Pages·1977·26.453 MB·English

by  Mark Twain, Charles Neider

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MARK
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READER
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Glitles Neder
For the first time, the best of the hu-
morous pieces of the brilliant and be-
loved “wild humorist of the Pacific
slope” are collected in one volume.
Yarns and tall tales, sketches and stor-
ies, lectures and speeches, and
excerpts from the long works: The In-
nocents Abroad, Roughing It, Huckle-
berry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, and Life
onthe Mississippi.
From his hilarious account of endur-
ing the Turkish Bath to his ascent of
the Riffelberg in evening dress, from
his observations on “so manifest a
humbug as the ant” to his riotous anal-
ysis of The Awful German Language,
at home or abroad, attacking presi-
dents or pressmen, the comic Mr.
Twain’s presence is much in evidence
in these pages. True humorist, sardonic
and pessimistic genius, “the printer's
apprentice from Hannibal... mascu-
line, personal, sarcastic, tender, nostal-
gic—and very funny.”

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THE COMIC MARK TWAIN READER
The Most Humorous Selections from His Stories,
Sketches, Novels, Travel Books and Speeches

OTHER BOOKS BY CHARLES NEIDER
Fiction
Naked Eye
The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones
The White Citadel
Nonfiction
Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica
Susy: A Childhood
Mark Twain
The Frozen Sea: A Study of Franz Kafka
SOME BOOKS EDITED BY CHARLES NEIDER
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain: Life As I Find It
The Adventures of Colonel Sellers, by Mark Twain
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
The Travels of Mark Twain
The Complete Novels of Mark Twain
The Complete Travel Books of Mark Twain
George Washington: A Biography, by Washington Irving
The Complete Tales of Washington Irving
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson
Short Novels of the Masters
Great Short Stories from the World’s Literature
Antarctica
Man Against Nature
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