Authors: Mark Twain, Philip Smith
ISBN-13: 9780486292793, ISBN-10: 0486292797
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: Special Value
Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens -- the man behind the figure of Mark Twain -- led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.
Eight delightfully entertaining pieces, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," "Journalism in Tennessee," "About Barbers," "The Stolen White Elephant," and 3 more.