A Treasury of Mark Twain

This selection gathers short fiction, sketches, travel pieces, speeches, and excerpts rather than a single novel. Typical contents include the Calaveras jumping-frog story, the corruption of the supposedly honest town of Hadleyburg, a penniless American handed a million-pound note in London, journalism and literary satires, European travel notes, and a scene from Tom Sawyer. The settings run from the Mississippi and the American West to hotel rooms and lecture platforms. Twain's subjects are lying, respectability, money, and the comedy of inexperience. There is no continuous plot: the volume is a sample of his comic and moral short forms.

Bound in pale green cloth with illustrator’s design in dark green on cover. Green endleaves. Green slipcase.