Book, Paperback Mark Twain, Charles Neider Published in: 1990 Publisher: Bantam Dell Language: English For 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 Twains 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 ofThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,to the bitter vision of humankind inThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,to the delightful hilarity ofIs He Living or Is He Dead?Surging with Twains ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career ofin the words of H. L. Menckenthe father of our national literature.