The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories (Signet Classics)
Contributors: Debbie Macomber (Afterword)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 809
ISBN-13: 9780451530165
First sentence: In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result.
Table of contents: title: Notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Story of the bad little boy -- Cannibalism in the cars -- Niagara -- Capitoline Venus -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A curious dream -- Facts in the case of the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- A medieval romance -- My watch -- Political economy -- Science vs. luck -- Story of the good little boy -- A mysterious visit -- Great landslide case -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- Captain Ned Blakely -- His grandfather's old ram -- Dick Baker's cat -- A letter from Horace Greeley -- A true story -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning -- McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Canvasser's tale -- Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Edward Mills and George Benton, a tale -- Jim Baker's bluejay yarn; title: Man who put up at Gadsby's -- A curious experience -- Invalid's story -- Stolen white elephant -- A dying man's confession -- Professor's yarn -- A burning brand -- Private history of a campaign that failed -- A ghost story -- Luck -- Playing courier -- Californian's tale -- Extract from Adam's diary -- Eve's diary -- Esquimau maiden's romance -- Is he living or is he dead? -- £1,000,000 bank-note -- John Brown and Mary Taylor --Cecil Rhodes's shark -- Why Ed Jackson called on Commodore Vanderbilt --Man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- Death disk -- Two little tales -- Belated Russian passport -- Double-barreled detective story -- Five boons of life -- Was it heaven? or hell? -- A dog's tale -- A horse's tale -- $30,000 bequest -- War prayer -- Hunting the deceitful turkey -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- A fable -- How to tell a story