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082	0		_aFIC TWA
100	1		_aTwain, Mark _d(1835-1910)
245	1	4	_aThe complete short stories of Mark Twain _c/ ed. Charles Neider
260			_aGarden City, New York _b: Doubleday and Company _c, c1957.
300			_a676p. us _c; 21 cm.
520			_aFor deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," to the bitter vision of humankind in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," to the delightful hilarity of "Is He Living or Is He Dead?" Surging with Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L. Mencken-"the father of our national literature."
655		7	_aShort stories
700	1		_aNeider, Charles
942			_cMO
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