Retells a story Twain heard from a bartender in the City of Angels, California, about the hopeless gambler and con artist Jim Smiley told by Simon Wheeler, "a fat and bald-headed man".
Mark Twain's famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story.
You had better shove this in the stove, " Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. Here, for the first time in book form, are twenty-four re...
You had better shove this in the stove, " Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd ‘literary remains' and ‘unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. Who Is Mark Twain? presents twenty-six wickedly funny, di...
A collection of some of Twain's best pieces of short fiction, including one of his most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg', a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible.
