{"product_id":"the-portable-mark-twain-paperback","title":"The Portable Mark Twain - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTom Quirk\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTom Quirk\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatirist, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA True Story\u003c\/i\u003e. It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (including \u003ci\u003eRoughing It, The Innocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLife on the Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, among others; autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected letters and speeches. The collection also reprints the complete text of \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, including the often omitted \u003ci\u003eraftsmen\u003c\/i\u003e passage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eand also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called \"the Lincoln of our literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's \u003cb\u003eTales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches\u003c\/b\u003e (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's \u003cb\u003eTales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e (2000) and co-editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Portable American Realism Reader\u003c\/b\u003e (1997). His other books include \u003cb\u003eComing to Grips with Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/b\u003e (1993), \u003cb\u003eMark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e (1997) and \u003cb\u003eNothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 579\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 7.72 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755425620301,"sku":"9780142437759","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/4B05ygYfkv9780142437759.webp?v=1776718898","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-portable-mark-twain-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}