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Series
The Library of America volume 60 & 61
Language
English
Description
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Author
Language
English
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A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.
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Series
Language
English
Description
A high-jumping frog named Daniel Webster ... A town so boastfully free of corruption that one visitor decides to test its mettle ... A man who buys a burglar alarm only to have it stolen with his other possessions. Such are the results when a traditional American genre, the tall tale, are put into the hands of a true American genius, Mark Twain. A collection of 13 stories.
11) Halloweenies
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five stories offer comical rewrites of well-known horror movies.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for...
15) Happy to be here
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories from America's favorite midwestern wit.
Author
Language
English
Description
Interviews with dead people by a man who visited Heaven, courtesy of Dr. Kevorkian, the euthanasia specialist. The noted author jumps back and forth from the afterlife to interview Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, William Shakespeare, and his own character, Kilgore Trout, in this humorous look at death.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant -- and utterly hilarious -- works of comic art. These two reissues represent the peak of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust disproves the adage "You can't go home again" as Shepherd bends the ear...