Charles Neider

An edited version of Mark Twain's description of his adventures on a walking trip across Europe.

This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Story of the Bad Little Boy," "Cannibalism in the Cars," "A Day at Niagara," "Legend of the Capitoline Venus," "Journalism in Tennessee," "A Curious Dream," "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract," "How I Edited an Agricultural...

61 stories. Includes "Rip van Winkle" and "The legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson's short fiction, including the complete New Arabian Nights and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as ghost stories, medieval romances, farces, horror stories, and the South Sea Tales. This volume...

In 1873, Mark Twain wrote, with the collaboration of Charles Dudley Warner, his first novel, The Gilded Age. It was Twain who created the basic plot and characterization, and Twain who wrote major portions of the book - which he later clearly identified as his own. Despite its being a best seller in its day, the book has received little attention in recent years, and one of Twain's most memorable characters has been almost forgotten. Now, by using...