Mark Twain
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Mark Twain's marvelous small work relating how to tell a story, an American story that is humorous not comic as with the British or witty by the French as he thought. The work also includes 4 marvelous but little known stories: The Wounded Soldier, The Golden Arm, Mental Telegraphy, and The Invalid's Story. The reason the stories are little known is the subtitle is "and other essays" as opposed to "4 stories). For Canadian listeners they will enjoy
...In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the bestselling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than a hundred years until author Lee
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