＂Thomas Becker’s delivery suggests 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
A collection of Twain’s best-loved and classic stories, including:
* The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)
* The Story of the Old Ram (from Roughing It, 1872)
* Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral (from Roughing It, 1872)
* Tom Quartz (from Roughing It, 1872)
* What Stumped the Bluejays (1880)
* Journalism in Tennessee (1869)
* How I Edited an Agricultural Paper (1870)
* The Facts in the Great Beef Contract (1870)
* The Great Landslide Case (1870)
* The Canvasser’s Tale (1845)
* The Facts Concerning he Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (1876)
* Cannibalism in the Cars (1868)
* My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale (1903)
* Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses (1895)
* Political Economy (1870)
* The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm (1882)
* The Art of Authorship (1890)
* A Genuine Mexican Plug (from Roughing It, 1872)
* Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup (1875)
* First Interview with Artemus Ward (1875)
* Punch, Brothers, Punch (1876)
* Elmira, October 11, 1869: To the California Pioneers (1869)
* An Author’s Soldiering (1887)
