Twain's Humor - Collected Stories

22 Classic Stories from classic American writer, Mark Twain:

• "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
• "The Story of the Old Ram"
• "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral"
• "Tom Quartz"
• "What Stumped the Bluejays"
• "Journalism in Tennessee"
• "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"
• "The Facts in the Great Beef Contract"
• "The Great Landslide Case"
• "The Canvasser's Tale"
• "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival Crime in Connecticut"
• "Cannibalism in the Cars"
• "My Watch"
• "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
• "Political Economy"
• "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm"
• "The Art of Authorship"
• "The Genuine Mexican Plug"
• "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup"
• "First Interview with Artemus Ward"
• "Punch, Brothers, Punch"
• "Elmira: October 11th, 1869"

"Thomas Becker's delivery suggest the wry humor one imagines the author himself would use in reading them." -- Booklist

"This recording's success is a result of Becker's dramatic reading ability, which is nicely understated yet totally effective and appropriate." -- School Library Journal

"Possibly the best Twain on the market." --The Society for Performance Literature