Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive collection of Mark Twain's earlier writings, now in an affordable new edition from Signet Classics. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain's short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County to the richly imaginative fable Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Twain scholar and biographer Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain's wittiest and most insightful writing.
