The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, which begins with "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a desire for social justice.