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A collection of the humorous works of Mark Twain, including stories, tall tales, lectures, speeches, and excerpts from "The Innocents Abroad," "Life on the Mississippi," and other long works.
Presents twelve adventures of A.J. and his friends at Ella Mentry School.
Admitting the influence of the Southwestern humorists on Mark Twain's work, Sloane attempts to assess the parallel importance of Northeastern literary comedy, the more overt political and satirical humor that culminates in the deadpan persona of Artemus Ward. Sloane argues that …
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or…