System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.
Performer
Read by Robin Field.
Note
Spoken audio file.
"Tracks Every 10 Minutes and by Chapter"--Container.
Summary
A collection of eighteen of Mark Twain's best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known displaying his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism.
Contents
Jim Smiley and his jumping frog -- The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief -- Cannibalism in the cars -- Journalism in Tennessee -- The story of the good little boy who did not prosper -- How I edited an agricultural paper once -- Political economy -- A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Punch, brothers, punch! -- Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn -- The stolen white elephant -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- The private history of a campaign that failed -- Extracts from Adam's diary -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The $30,000 bequest -- Eve's diary.
