The Portable Mark Twain
by Twain, Mark; edited by Bernard De Voto
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 014015020X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140150209
- Seller
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23929
- Title
- The Portable Mark Twain
- Author
- Twain, Mark; edited by Bernard De Voto
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014015020X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140150209
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- (1977)
- Keywords
- 014015020X
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