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Short Stories and Tall Tales / Mark Twain.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
- Series:
- Courage classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humorous stories, American.
- Tall tales--United States.
- Tall tales.
- United States.
- Genre:
- novels.
- Novels
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 319, [1] pages ; 22 cm.
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,
- Other Title:
- Short stories & tall tales
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, [1993]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
- A visit to Niagara
- Journalism in Tennessee
- A mysterious visit
- The undertaker's chat
- The danger of lying in bed
- A true story repeated word for word as I heard it
- An encounter with an interviewer
- About barbers
- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut
- The journals of Germany
- Playing courier
- On the decay of the art of lying
- The stolen white elephant
- The £1,000,000 bank-note
- Extracts from Adam's diary
- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
- How to tell a story
- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
- The $30,000 bequest
- Eve's diary
- Essay / Charles Neider
- Essay / Alfred Kazin.
- Notes:
- "All Stories Complete and Unabridged"--Jacket.
- "The text of this volume is excerpted from 'The Unabridged Mark Twain,' Volume 1, copyright © 1976 by Running Press, and 'The Unabridged Mark Twain,' Volume II, copyright © 1979 by Running Press."--Title page verso.
- "The essay by Charles Neider is reprinted from the introduction to 'The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain,' edited by Charles Neider, copyright © 1957, 1985, 1993 by Charles Neider. Used by permission of Charles Neider."--Title page verso.
- "The essay, Creatures of Circumstance: Mark Twain by Alfred Kazin is reprinted from 'An American Procession,' copyright © 1984 by Alfred Kazin, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984."--Title page verso.
- "Edited by Virginia Mattingly. Cover illustration by Richard Loehle. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: ITC Berkeley Oldstyle by Deborah Lugar."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy 1 has dustjacket retained.
- Running Press copy 1 is "1" printing.
- Running Press copy 2 has dustjacket with different ISBN (076240549X) retained.
- Running Press copy 2 is "3" printing with "All Stories Complete and Unabridged" not on dustjacket.
- ISBN:
- 1561383236
- 9781561383238
- OCLC:
- 29178395
- Publisher Number:
- 9781561383238 90000
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