The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin Classics)

Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County , How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once , Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn , and A True Story. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It , The Innocents Abroad , and Life on the Mississippi , among others); autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , including the often omitted "raftsmen passage".

Contents:

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)

How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once (1870)

Selections From Roughing It (1872)

An Encounter with an Interviewer (1874)

A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It (1874)

Selections from

-The Innocents Abroad (1869)

-The Gilded Age (1873)

-A Tramp Abroad (1880)

-Life on the Mississippi (1883)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) [Complete Novel]

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885)

Selections from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Extracts from Adam's Diary (1893)

Selections from

-The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

-Following the Equator (1897)

To the Person Sitting in Darkenss (1901)

Corn-Pone Opinions (1901)

Early Days (1907)

Speeches

Letters