Twain-The Mysterious Stranger and Other

The author of outstanding travel books autobiographical works and novels including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835&;1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories.The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County one of Twain's most amusing pieces of folk humor first published in 1865; The £1000000 Bank Note a lighthearted exploration of the power of money; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg a masterfully written short story about greed; and his last work The Mysterious Stranger a novelette published posthumously in 1916 presenting Twain's rather grim views of God man and the universe.