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The complete short stories of Mark Twain : now collected for the first time / edited with an introduction by Charles Neider.
LIBRA - Rare PS1303 . N385 1957 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humorous stories, American.
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 676 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Book Club Edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1957]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County
- The story of the bad little boy
- Cannibalism in the cars
- A day at Niagara
- Legend of the Capitoline Venus
- Journalism in Tennessee
- A curious dream
- The facts in the great beef contract
- How I edited an agricultural paper
- A medieval romance
- My watch
- Political economy
- Science vs. Luck
- The story of the good little boy
- Buck Fanshaw's funeral
- The story of the old ram
- Tom Quartz
- A trial
- The trials of Simon Erickson
- A true story
- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup
- Some learned fables for good old boys and girls
- The canvasser's tale
- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
- Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale
- The man who put up at Gadsby's
- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning
- What stumped the bluejays
- A curious experience
- The invalid's story
- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm
- The stolen white elephant
- A burning brand
- A dying man's confession
- The professor's yarn
- A ghost story
- Luck
- Playing courier
- The Californian's tale
- The diary of Adam and Eve
- The Esquimau maiden's romance
- Is he living or is he dead?
- The £1,000,000 bank-note
- Cecil Rhodes and the shark
- The joke that made Ed's fortune
- A story without an end
- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
- The death disk
- Two little tales
- The belated Russian passport
- A double-barreled detective story
- The five boons of life
- Whas it heaven? Or hell?
- A dog's tale
- The $30,000 bequest
- A horse's tale
- Hunting the deceitful turkey
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven
- A fable
- The mysterious stranger.
- Notes:
- Edition statement from dust jacket.
- "Copyright © 1957 by Charles Neider."
- "The present volume contains a total of sixty stories, thirteen of them gathered from works of non-fiction ... The text is that of the Stormfield Edition of Twain's Works, published in 1929 by Harper & Brothers in thirty-seven volumes. The stories are arranged chronologically according the years of first publication, and alphabetically within a given year whenever more than one story was published in that year."--A Note on the Text.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok April 1967 Philadelphia".
- OCLC:
- 1003959990
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