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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain

De: Mark Twain
Narrado por: Robin Field
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Mark Twain's writing has been wildly popular ever since he put pen to paper, and now its popularity has continued into the new century.

Mark Twain was well known as a great American short-story writer as well as a novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, the well known and the lesser known, displays his best-known side, as a master of Western humor and frontier realism, with little of the pessimism that surfaced in his later works.

Beginning the collection is "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," which was Twain's first successful story, published in 1865 in the New York Saturday Press. This comic version of an old folk tale became the title story of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, published in 1867, which was what established him as a leading American humorist.

Twain's most distinctive work sums up the tradition of Western humor and frontier realism. Beginning as a journalist, he assumed the method and point of view of popular literature in the U.S., maintaining the personal anecdotal style that he also used in his comic lectures.

These stories display Twain's place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for social justice and a pervasive equalitarian attitude.

Public Domain (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Mark Twain was a master of "pungent tall talk and picaresque adventure." ( The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature)
Enjoyable Stories • Memorable Moments • Great Narration • Twain's Humor • Classic American Tales • Laugh-out-loud Funny
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I listened to samples from several, audiobook Twain titles~ this one won the family vote.
However, it would be most helpful to have the chapter’s titled as the name of the short story. How exactly can we reference or research a story we aren’t sure of the name of. C’mon Audible.

As I imagined Twain’s voice

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Loved all of the stories. They lead you back in time as only Twain can do. The narrator was perfect for reading Twain...you can almost imagine he is Twain himself.

Mark Twain at his best with short stories

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If course Mark Twain is a genius--the greatest American author of all time. The reader was also excellent. He captured Mr. Twain's subtle wit and sarcasm perfectly.

Fantastic

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The narrator has a golden voice, no doubt. As for the stories, well, Mark Twain is Mark Twain. So far he is my favourite American writer.

It's worth time.

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My wife didn't care too much for Robin Field's reading. The best I ever heard is Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight.

Reader slightly flat.

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Robin Field was excellent in reading Mark Twains' stories. It's too bad Sam isn't alive today to give us his toungue in cheek commentary on current politics.

Mark Twain

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Would you consider the audio edition of The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain to be better than the print version?

Twain is good in either format, but this audio is very well done.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain?

My teenage son and I enjoyed the two stories of the boys who turned out differently than might be predicted by their behaviour, especially when the bad boy "all of a sudden wasn't taken over by a terrible feeling of guilt."

What does Robin Field bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I enjoyed the narrator, who provided a hint of the accent so that Twain's "twang" of the late 19th century American west and midwest comes through.

Twain stands the test of time

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Great and enjoyable but the last stories in the book are missing on the listening version. That's disappointing!

Great but not all Stories in book are on Audible

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The book was well written, in the Narration was superb. Keep up the good work here.

Have always loved this author

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Robin Field gives a great reading of some of Mark Twain's best stories. His narration is a little flat in the beginning, but when he gets into the voices of the many characters, he takes off.

The audiobook appears to be based on the Modern Library edition of the same title: it has the same stories in the same order, including the date of publication; and my only complaint is that the last four stories from that collection, all from Twain's darker period, are omitted. (This may have been an issue of length, but I suspect it's more a question of copyright.) The omitted stories include "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" and the haunting and unfinished story "The Great Dark." Luckily most of the omitted material is available in other Mark Twain recordings on Audible.com. (For example, "The Great Dark" is available as part of the "Letters From the Earth" audiobook, which I also recommend.)

So the collection isn't as complete as it could be, but as far as it goes, it's first-rate. It includes the usual suspects (the Jumping Frog and Hadleyburg) and one of my own personal favorites, "The Stolen White Elephant," one of the most laugh-out-loud-funny parodies of detective fiction ever written. If you're just getting into Twain, this is a good place to start.

Great but incomplete

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