The Portable Mark Twain
by Mark Twain and Bernard Augustine De Voto
Mark Twain saw more of the United States and shared in general a greater variety of characteristic American experiences than any of our other major writers. the selections in this book have been chosen to show the richness of that variety. Not only is Huckleberry Finn here in it entirety, including the famous and rarely printed "raftmen passage," but also The Mysterious Stranger, the climax of Twain's more profound satire. There are substantial excerpts from other works, including Old Times on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee, Europe and Elsewhere; as well as stories, satires, and 28 letters, some previously unpublished.
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American literature, Correspondence, American Humorous stories, American Authors, literature, child witnesses, young men, Male friendship, Runaway children, voyages and travels, juvenile literature, rafting, adventure and adventurers, orphans, slavery, friendship, history, runaway teenagers, boys in literature, Slaves, Race relations, Boys, Fugitive slaves, Fiction, Travel, Juvenile fiction, Social life and customs, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Short storiesPeople
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The Portable Mark Twain
1985, Viking Press
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The Portable Mark Twain
1977, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
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The Portable Mark Twain
1974 05, Viking Press
Paperback
in English
- 41st printing
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Contents:
Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
from A Tramp Abroad
from Old Times on the Mississippi
Private History of a Campaign that Failed
from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
from Pudd'nhead Wilson
from Following the Equator
from Mark Twain in Eruption
from Europe and Elsewhere
from Mark Twain's Autobiography
Mysterious Stranger
Letters
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