Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 1
by Mark Twain 
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A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.Tags
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Endearing. Extremely funny. Much material of a serious nature is attacked by Twain's caustic wit. We need an observer of humanity like him today. He'd skewer the celebrities, sports stars and politicians and show them as naked as a plucked chicken on a spit.
Interesting to see his work as it develops. This volume was heavy on his early newspaper work -- mostly fabricated "journalism," letters, etc. Some of the essays are too serious. He gets his point across much better when he skewers his victim with his razor sharp wit. I suspect the second volume will contain more of his short stories and speeches and will also show his darker side developing as he experiences more setbacks. I like reading it in chronological order to see that development.
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Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a show more career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 1
- Alternate titles
- Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890 (LOA, Book 60) (LOA, Book 60)
- Original publication date
- 1992-10-15
- Publisher's editor
- Budd, Louis J.
- Disambiguation notice
- This is an omnibus unique to the Library of America; therefore, all CK facts apply to this publication only.
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