Twain's Humor - Collected Stories

Summary

22 Classic Stories from classic American writer, Mark Twain:

• "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"


• "The Story of the Old Ram"


• "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral"


• "Tom Quartz"


• "What Stumped the Bluejays"


• "Journalism in Tennessee"


• "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"


• "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract"


• "The Great Landslide Case"


• "The Canvasser's Tale"


• "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival Crime in Connecticut"


• "Cannibalism in the Cars"


• "My Watch"


• "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"


• "Political Economy"


• "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm"


• "The Art of Authorship"


• "The Genuine Mexican Plug"


• "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup"


• "First Interview with Artemus Ward"


• "Punch, Brothers, Punch"


• "Elmira: October 11th, 1869"

"Thomas Becker's delivery suggest the wry humor one imagines the author himself would use in reading them." -- Booklist

"This recording's success is a result of Becker's dramatic reading ability, which is nicely understated yet totally effective and appropriate." -- School Library Journal

"Possibly the best Twain on the market." --The Society for Performance Literature