The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories

For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel<i> <b>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</b></i> he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain&#146;s short pieces from the classic frontier sketch &#147;The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County&#148; to the richly imaginative fable &#147;Extract from Captain Stormfield&#146;s Visit to Heaven.&#148; Compiled by Pulitzer Prize&#150;winning Twain scholar and biographer Justin Kaplan this collection represents some of Mark Twain&#146;s wittiest and most insightful writing.