num_pages: 790
description: Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others); autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including the often omitted raftsmen passage.Contents:Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyfrom A Tramp Abroadfrom Old Times on the MississippiPrivate History of a Campaign that Failedfrom A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtAdventures of Huckleberry FinnFenimore Cooper's Literary Offensesfrom Pudd'nhead Wilsonfrom Following the Equatorfrom Mark Twain in Eruptionfrom Europe and Elsewherefrom Mark Twain's AutobiographyMysterious StrangerLetters
language: English
title: The Portable Mark Twain
titlecomplete: The Portable Mark Twain
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Anthologies, Humor, Literature, Classics, 19th Century
ratings_count: 197
publisher: Penguin Books