The Best Short Works of Mark Twain
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The Best Short Works of Mark Twain

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832 pages 2004

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The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County --
The story of the bad little boy --
Cannibalism in the cars --
A day at Niagara --
Legend of the Capitoline Venus --
Journalism in Tennessee --
A curious dream --
The facts in the great beef contract --
How I edited an agricultural paper --
A medieval romance --
My watch --
Political economy --
Science vs. luck --
The story of the good little boy --
Buck Fanshaw's funeral --
The story of the old ram --
A true story --
Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup --
The canvasser's tale --
The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --
The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton --
Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale --
The men who put up at Gadsby's --
Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning --
Jim Baker's bluejay yarn --
A curious experience --
The invalid's story --
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm --
The stolen white elephant --
A dying man's confession --
The professor's yarn --
The private history of a campaign that failed --
A ghost story --
Luck --
Playing courier --
The Californian's tale --
Extracts from Adam's diary --
Eve's diary --
The Esquimau maiden's romance --
Is he living or is he dead? The $1,000,000 bank-note --
How to tell a story --
Cecil Rhodes and the shark --
Why Ed Jackson called on commodore Vanderbilt --
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg --
The death disk --
Two little tales --
The belated Russian passport --
A double-barreled detective story --
The five boons of life --
Was it heaven? or hell? --
A dog's tale --
The $30,000 bequest --
A horse's tale --
Hunting the deceitful turkey --
Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven --
A fable.

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