num_pages: 28
description: American life comes under the scrutiny of Mark Twain's wit in this delightful collection of short stories. Here he comments on politics education the media religion and literature. The true subject of Twain's satire and burlesque is that strangest of all animals the human being. In his novels travel narratives stories essays and sketches Twain exposes such a variety of human foibles that one is left either laughing at the folly of human enterprise blushing with shame at human behavior or cursing the gods that would create such a silly animal. Twain does all three often at the same time.
language: English
title: Taming the Bicycle
publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform