FREE: Mark Twain - Hardcover - Samuel Clemens

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NEW Hardcover with dust jacket. Collected Tales, Sketches Speeches and Essays 1852 -1890. 1076 pages From The LIbrary of America Series - These books sell for around $50.00 each.

191 separate items in this volume. Twain was a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist, and publisher, he witnessed the tragic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, and the corruption, and ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, and the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it.
Among the stories included in this volume are 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,''Cannibalism in the Cars,' 'The Invalid's Story,' and the charming 'A Cat Tale,' written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous and successful speeches and toasts, such as 'Woman - God Bless Her,' 'The Babies,' and 'Advice to Youth.' This collection also includes an extensive chronology of Twain's life, helpful notes on the people and events referred to in his works, and a guide to the texts.

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