The Portable Mark Twain

By Mark Twain and (BERNARD DE VOTO (EDITED BY) MARK TWAIN

Book Overview

Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story . It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad , and Life on the Mississippi , among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , including the often omitted raftsmen passage. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142437751
• ISBN13: 9780142437759
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 579 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A good anthology to teach about Mark Twain

I am an instructor in a Senior College and was seeking an anthology that contained Huckleberry Finn in its entirety but also some early and late work of S. Clemens - Mark Twain. That is a hard to find combination. While I might quibble with some of the sketches included, it will meet my needs better than any other compendium I have found.

The best of the best

This anthology contains the text of what is for many the greatest of all American comic novels, " Huckleberry Finn". It also contains a rich selection of material from other works, including what is perhaps the funniest essay in literary criticism ever written , the essay on 'Fenimore Cooper's errors'. Mark Twain is the great genius of American colloquial speech, the writer who hears America's diverse voices as no one else does. He is also a deeply humane if sharply critical and comic observer of the human drama. This selection contains some of the best writing of one of America's true classics.