The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
By (Author) Mark Twain
Edited by Lawrence Berkove
Introduction by Pete Hamill
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
1st July 2004
13th April 2004
United States
Tertiary Education
Fiction
Short stories
813.4
Paperback
400
Width 132mm, Height 203mm, Spine 22mm
293g
This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and
"I like a good story told well. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."
LAWRRENCE I. BERKOVE, this volume's editor, is a professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and a noted authority on Mark Twain. He has published groundbreaking essays on Twain's major novels, short fiction, travel literature, and religious values. PETE HAMILL, this volume's introducer, is a journalist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer, and the author of A Drinking Life- A Memoir and Why Sinatra Matters. His ten novels include Snow in August and Forever. He lives in New York City.