Frank Carlson Library

Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes or authors are placed together, saying that "This way, you will have to peruse the whole thing before discovering that one of your favorites is not included."...

A thorough delightful examination of the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from birth to marriage at age thirty-four-the years of wildly varied experince that helped form the bases of his classics