The Portable Mark Twain

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 <i>The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn</i> and <i>A True Story</i>. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including <i>Roughing It The Innocents Abroad</i> and <i>Life on the Mississippi</i> among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i> including the often omitted <i>raftsmen</i> passage.<br><br>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.