کتاب Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain Original For deft plotting riotous inventiveness unforgettable characters and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech no American writer comes close to Mark Twain This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twains inimitable yarnspinning from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years  Every one of his sixty stories is here ranging from the frontier humor of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County to the bitter vision of humankind in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg to the delightful hilarity of Is He Living or Is He Dead Surging with Twains ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature this volume is a vibrant summation of the career ofin the words of H L Menckenthe father of our national literature