{"product_id":"9780060002718","title":"Mark Twain Audio Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.\" — Mark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Twain (1835-1910) was the first American writer to capture the unique and colorful vernacular of his country's populace. Instead of striving to perfect any particular literary form, Twain strove to precisely imprint on paper the colloquial speech, mannerisms and experiences of the American people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwain's books earned him an enduring reputation as a satirist and humorist, but he also wrote great short stories. These stories, with their wonderful characters and witty turns-of-phrase, have defined in Americans' minds what it means to have been at a time in our country which was at once optimistic, exploratory and recklessly exploitative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eListeners can still benefit today from hearing Mark Twain's stories and selections from his novels as they become again what they originally were: the oral history of our uniquely American consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes selections from \u003cb\u003eLife on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, and The Autobiography of Mark Twain, \u003c\/b\u003e and the short stories \u003cb\u003e The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune, A Dog's Tale, A Story Without an End\u003c\/b\u003e and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerformed by Ed Begley, Sr., Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde, Will Geer, and David Wayne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperAudio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009801568496,"sku":"9780060002718","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060002718_p0.jpg?v=1763618882","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060002718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}