{"product_id":"the-signet-classic-book-of-mark-twains-short-stories-paperback","title":"The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJustin Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDebbie Macomber\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, \u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, 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's short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch \"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\" to the richly imaginative fable \"Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.\" Compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain's wittiest and most insightful writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing, but toward the end of his life he went bankrupt and undertook a round-the-world lecture tour in order to pay off his creditors. He lives in American letters as one of our greatest humorists and novelists, the writer whom William Dean Howells called \"the Lincoln of our literature.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJustin Kaplan \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of\u003ci\u003e Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eMark Twain and His World\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLincoln Steffens\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWalt Whitman: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1985, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His final book was \u003ci\u003eWhen the Astors Owned New York\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDebbie Macomber's\u003c\/b\u003e first book was published by Silhouette in 1982, and today she has more than seventy million books in print. Among her many \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling titles are \u003ci\u003eA Good Yarn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Shop on Blossom Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e44 Cranberry Point\u003c\/i\u003e, a Quill Book Award winner, and \u003ci\u003eMr. Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 832\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 6.7 x 4.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756009980192,"sku":"9780451530165","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3923bfb46f9415971d81fef7c56a3c03.webp?v=1780072617","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-signet-classic-book-of-mark-twains-short-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}