Read by Robin Field

Mark Twain was known as a great American short story writer as well
as novelist and humorist This collection of eighteen of Mark Twain's
best short stories, including both the well known and the lesser known,
displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism, the
qualities for which he is best known The stories also show how Twain
earned his 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 equality

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

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