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spanThe author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/em, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 18351910) is regarded by many as America’s finest humorist and a major writer of short stories. /spanspanThe four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: /span”The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” one of Twain’s most amusing pieces of folk humor, first published in 1865″The ;pound;1,000,000 Bank Note,” a lighthearted exploration of the power of money”The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” a masterfully written short story about greed”The Mysterious Stranger,” his last work, a novelette published posthumously in 1916, presenting Twain’s rather grim views of God, man, and the universe.spanCopyright 1992, Unabridged Dover Thrift Edition. Author: Mark Twain. Paperback, 121 pages, 5 x 8 inches. Middle/high school./spanspanISBN 13:span978-0-486-27069-2/spanbr /ISBN-10:span0-486-27069-6/span/spanspanbr //span
