Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The

TWAIN, MARK
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), the great American humorist, novelist, essayist, lecturer and traveler, was also an important writer of short short stories. The four famous stories selected for the present volume cover the full range of his career, from the immortal 'Jumping Frog,' written in his folksiest and wittiest vein in California in 1865, to 'The Mysterious Stranger,' not published until six years after his death, and a monument to the misanthropy and pessimism of his later years. 'The $1,000,000 Bank-Note' is a lightheartedstudy of man's adoration of wealth. 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' though not lacking in funny situations, is a grimmer picture of vengeful hatred, complacent hypocrisy and greed for pelf.