Mark Twain Short Stories
A Seven-Day Gateway to Tales of Wit, Wealth, and Human Folly
Wit, satire, and the full range of America's greatest storyteller.
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Everyone knows Mark Twain by reputation. Fewer people have actually sat down with his short fiction — the stories where his wit is sharpest, his targets are clearest, and his sentences are shortest. This isn't Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. It's something leaner: seven stories built to expose exactly how people behave when money, reputation, or a guilty conscience is on the line.
Together they take aim at greed, vanity, bureaucracy, small-town self-righteousness, and the stories people tell themselves about their own virtue. By the end of the week you'll see why a joke about a frog, a bank-note, or an honest town can still land two hundred years later.
Inside this volume
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
- The Stolen White Elephant
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
- Extracts from Adam's Diary
- Eve's Diary
Every volume includes
- Seven complete short stories, one for each day
- A reading note before each story, so you're never reading blind
- An introduction to the author and where they sit in literary history
- Discussion questions built in — for reflection or group use
- An annotated guide to what to read next
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